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James Rebanks

A year on a Lake District fell farm — the landscape you're walking through, written from the inside.

James Rebanks

Rebanks on three generations of farming and what the land has lost — and how it might come back.

Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall's debut novel — the drowning of Mardale village to create Haweswater reservoir in the 1930s.

Sarah Moss

A taut novel set on the Cumbrian fells — illness, walking and the pull of high places.

Lee Schofield

An RSPB site manager on rewilding Haweswater — meadows, eagles and the long work of restoration.

Sarah Hall

A short, elemental novel set in Cumbria — love, family and the weather of the fells.

Wordsworth & Coleridge

The 1798 collection that invented English Romanticism — written largely in and about these hills.

Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy's daily notebooks from Dove Cottage — the daffodils, the weather, the walks that fed her brother's poems.

David Felton & Mark Richards

Long-form walking conversations from across Cumbria. Start with the Hawkshead and Coniston episodes.

David Felton & Mark Richards

Released 26 June 2026 — a midsummer stroll through Hawkshead and its tiny school with a big impact.

David Felton & Mark Richards

A walking conversation about Beatrix Potter's life at Hill Top and her conservation legacy.

David Felton & Mark Richards

Through the firs, sculptures and red-squirrel territory of Grizedale Forest.

dir. Chris Noonan

Beatrix Potter's life at Hill Top farm, just down the road in Near Sawrey.

dir. Philippa Lowthorpe

Arthur Ransome's classic filmed on Coniston Water and Derwentwater — the lakes as adventure.

dir. Will Gluck

Beatrix Potter's world reimagined — much of it shot around Windermere and the Lakes.

dir. Harry Macqueen

Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci road-trip through the Lakes in a tender, autumnal love story.

dir. Danny Boyle

The final act unfolds at Ennerdale and Wast Water — the Lakes at their wildest and emptiest.

dir. Bruce Robinson

Two actors flee London for a cottage near Shap. "We've gone on holiday by mistake."

dir. Michael Anderson

The bouncing-bomb test flights filmed over Derwentwater and Haweswater.

dir. Christopher McQuarrie

Tom Cruise's latest set-piece took over the Lakes for filming — keep an eye out for familiar fells.

dir. J.J. Abrams

Derwentwater and the Lakeland fells stand in for the planet Takodana.

Terry Abraham

Slow, gorgeous portrait of England's highest peak across the seasons.

Cumbria Tourism

Official what's-on listings, weather and travel updates for the National Park.

LDNPA

Ranger updates, path closures and conservation news straight from the park authority.

Cumbria newsletter

A newsletter of farming, landscape and life in Cumbria — well worth reading before and after your stay.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Local nature reserves, conservation events and wildlife guides across Cumbria.