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Trick Question: How many actual lakes are there in the Lake District? Bleeeeep!
Wrong! There’s only one! Bassenthwaite Lake. All the others are, strictly speaking, tarns, meres
or waters as in Thirlemere, Ullswater, Windermere etc.

It is also great walking country with walks for every ability from ambles around lakes to high ridge
walks, with a bit of scrambling – climbing over rocks without a rope. An excellent source of walking
information can be found at the Walklakes website or the Lakes District National Park website.

For more on the things to see and do in The Lake District click here . . .

From Keswick to Chester there are two ways you can tackle the journey. Either way you’ll start by
exploring further afield in the Lake District as you head south past Windermere.

Then you can take a choice – either rip straight down the M6 through the west Midlands, the
industrial heartland of England, to Chester, or take a longer, but much more interesting, and more
beautiful route through the Yorkshire Dales.

As you travel south you will have the Pennines, a range of hills, as your companion. If you take the
M6 option they’ll be on your left. Take the Yorkshire Dales road and you’ll pick your way through
the higgledy-piggledy pile of river valleys that make up the Yorkshire Dales National Park, part of
the Pennine system. The Pennines aren’t exactly a continuous line of hills, instead they are a
chain of short ranges with the river-worn Dales between them.

Founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century A.D. Chester is known for its extensive Roman
walls made of local red sandstone. In the old city, the Rows is a shopping district distinguished by
2-level covered arcades and Tudor-style half-timber buildings. A Roman amphitheatre, with
ongoing excavations, lies just outside the old city’s walls.

For thing to do on the road from The Lake District to Chester click here . . .