The official visitor website for Keswick
Visit Keswick the Lake District, an award-winning destination just 20 minutes from Junction 40 of the M6.
Discover where to eat, sleep, shop and have fun in Keswick the Lake District.
Book accommodation quickly and easily on Keswick's premier tourism website, operated and managed by Keswick Tourism Association. Plan your stay and discover Keswick and its surrounding valleys and villages.
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Book quality Guest houses and experience a true Lake District welcome or spoil yourself in a luxurious Hotel
Stay in superb Self Catering Cottages or plan a break in a luxurious lodge.
Stay on a farm and enjoy rural life. We are surrounded by stunning scenery, choose between B&B, self catering and camping.
Book a stay in a caravan or bring your own and enjoy magnificent views from your door.
Try Camping and glamping in wonderfully situated campsites or stay in a camping barn. Camping in the Lake District has to be one of the great holiday experiences
Explore our six lakes– Derwentwater, Bassenthwaite Lake, Buttermere, Crummock Water, Loweswater and Thirlmere
Discover our valleys - Borrowdale, Buttermere, Newlands, Derwent, St John’s in the Vale and back of Skiddaw
Climb our mountains – Skiddaw, Catbells, Blencathra, Scafell Pike, Helvellyn
Woolfest 2018 promises to be “blooming” marvellous with wool flowers all over the show as the popular event falls within British Flowers Week. The original British festival of wool, Woolfest is now in its fourteenth year and it regularly attracts over 5,000 visitors to Cumbria from across the UK and beyond. Woolfest 2018 will feature over 150 different stalls, including about 20 livestock stands, and Mitchell’s promises to be transformed with colour.
Keswick Tourism Association has been delighted to work with the Keswick Lions on their Tourism leaflet competition. The Lions visited the five primary schools around Keswick and invited the children to design a leaflet telling people about all the great things to do around Keswick.
We are very pleased to be able to display the winning leaflets from each school as pdf downloads. There are also fantastic recommendations from the winners and runners up leaflets which we hope will give you plenty of ideas for great family days out in and around Keswick the Lake District.
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With six lakes, stunning mountain scenery, woodlands and valleys there is much to enjoy in Keswick and the surrounding area. Add to that excellent shopping, delicious food, interesting attractions, a wide range of activities and the chance to take in some culture in our museums, theatre and cinema. Book your holiday now, whether you are looking for a relaxing break or an active holiday you will find it all here.
Order a copy of our 2018 Keswick Guide or view it online. Whether you are a first time visitor or have been visiting Keswick for many years we are sure you will find something in our 2018 Keswick Guide to interest you. Within the pages of the Guide you can take a tour of our town and villages, learn about the local wildlife, take a glimpse of Keswick in years gone by and much more. With top class accommodation, shops, attractions and activities we look forward to welcoming you here soon.
Woolfest 2018 at Cockermouth promises to be “blooming” marvellous as the original British festival of wool falls within British Flowers Week. Woollen flowers will be filling the Small Ring at Mitchell’s Lakeland Livestock Centre as part of a fundraising project with West House. Visitors are being asked to create flowers in wool – knitted, crocheted, felted and sewn, even pompom-ed – and to bring these along. The flowers will be collected, displayed and then sold or used by the local charity in its Café West venues in Keswick, Whitehaven and Workington and its garden shop in West Cumbria.
There’ll be lots to see and do at Woolfest with over 150 inspiring wool craft stalls, skill demonstrations and the From Fell to Fabulous exhibition as well as livestock stands, a rare breed parade, shearing demonstrations and a raw fleece sale.
Woolfest opens at 10am on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 June at Mitchell’s Lakeland Livestock Centre (CA13 0QQ) and entry costs £10 per day (including programme) or £15 for a two-day ticket with free entry for accompanied children and free parking. Directions and details are online at www.woolfest.co.uk.
