Blog (Health & Wellbeing) - Visit Lake District

Our thoughts this month revolve around Health and wellbeing - and we can’t help but look forward eagerly to an exciting new event coming to Holker Hall and Gardens in August.

The Wild GOAT Festival will bring families together in the great outdoors for an action-packed weekend of running, cycling, music, food and fun!

The River Eden flows from North Yorkshire to the Solway Firth in the north of Cumbria. The main course of the river is an area known as the Eden Valley – an unspoiled area of rolling green countryside, quant villages and thousands of years of historical myths and legends.

While we all enjoy a bright, dry and sunny day, waterfalls give us all the perfect reason to embrace the damper days too, thanks to rain dialing-up the thrill factor by ensuring cascades of water make a major entrance from the high ground.

2021 is Cumbria's Year of the Coast. In late summer of 2020 Cornwall based photographer Sam Scales spent 9 days travelling through Copeland as part of a shoot to capture the beauty of the Lake District Coast. His body of photographs, which were commissioned as part of the Deep Time arts programme, provide a stunning showcase of this lesser-known part of the National Park, from its ancient standing stones to the post -industrial landscapes of Whitehaven.

Its National Gardens week from 26th April until 2nd May and this year is also the anniversary of the famous garden designer Thomas Mawson. Read on to find out more about the man and the gardens he designed.

If you are a green-fingered fan, you are completely spoiled for choice when it comes to bloomin’ magnificent gardens in Cumbria. Let's take a wander around some of our favourites, taking in everything from formal gardens to ones where the wildflowers are left to flourish.

A unique landscape and the largest national park in England, the Lake District is home to the tallest mountain in England, its deepest lake, and a wealth of incredible wildlife and heritage. Read on to find out all about the most famous 16 lakes of the Lake District.

My name is Bethan Pettitt and I've been the head gardener at the Brantwood Estate in Coniston for just over a year. Welcome to my new regular column which, as you might expect, is all about gardening.

Looking for a unique way to explore the Lake District? Why not take to two wheels? There’s never been a better time to take this to the next level and try a multi-day cycling tour of the UK’s largest National Park.

Walking is such a simple thing – most of us do it every single day. But here in the Lake District, walking is even more special with endless opportunities to explore and discover so pack a picnic, lace up your boots and head out to create some memories that will last a lifetime.

Claire & Gareth Mc Keever are the owners of Pure Lakes Skincare and we recently sat down with Claire to talk about life in the Lakes.

Its thirty years since we lost Alfred Wainwright -the Cumbrian author who is now synonymous with the Lake District fells. Just after lockdown, inspired by his daily exercise, James Forrest set a new record for the time taken to complete all the Lake District mountains.

Introducing Home Spa - Handmade by Pure Lakes in their Lake District workshop.

Specially designed to bring the spa into the home, allowing you to have the relaxing and luxury experience of a natural spa treatment, anytime.

Forestry England’s Lake District Forests, Grizedale Forest and Whinlatter Forest are special places where people can feel good during the Autumn and Winter seasons. Find out more.

Forestry England’s Grizedale Forest is a special place, one that inspires, exhilarates, and rejuvenates those who visit. Find out more.

"Pure Lakes skincare products are just what they say - pure, lovely to use and smell divine." Carole W. June 2020

This recent review says it all. Everything is handmade in the Pure Lakes workshop in the Lake District. Find out more...

Explore The Lake District, Cumbria on Two Wheels.

Cumbria is ideal for exploring on two wheels and you don’t need to have calf muscles like Bradley Wiggins to get on your bike.

The idea that spending recreational time outdoors in natural spaces is good for you isn’t new, but now there is a growing body of research that supports it.