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Vibrant Villages
Portinscale
Portinscale is just a mile away from Keswick and within easy reach thanks to a little footbridge over the River Greta. It’s here you’ll find the two marinas on Derwentwater as well as a pub and tearoom.
Beatrix Potter’s family took their summer holidays at Lingholm and Fawe Park, both now private houses. She spent many hours making sketches for her books and it is said that the red squirrels here inspired ‘The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin’ and that the gardens ‘Mr McGregor’s Garden’ (which can be glimpsed from the footpath between Nichol End and Hawse End).
Braithwaite is a couple of miles away and great base for a walking holiday as it is at the foot of Whinlatter Pass and at the start of the Newlands Valley. It also nestles beneath the famous Coledale Horseshoe – Grisedale, Causey Pike, High Stile and Barrow.
From here it’s almost three miles to Force Crag Mine, where you can see the buildings and machinery of the last working mine in the Lake District restored by the National Trust.
Applethwaite is just over a mile away from Keswick and sits on the sunny south-facing slopes of Skiddaw. From here you get fine views over the town and down the lake towards Borrowdale as well as the Helvellyn range in the distance and the top of Grisedale Pike and the north western fells.
Thornthwaite is three miles away from Keswick, between Whinlatter Forest and Bassenthwaite Lake. Whinlatter has a network of forest tracks which are great for families to explore and also high adrenalin, purpose-built mountain bike trails. There is also a chance to walk through the trees on the Go Ape adventure. The forest is a great habitat for wildlife and a haven for birds, the most famous of which are the Ospreys which return every summer.
The most striking landmark in Thornthwaite is Bishop’s Rock – a white painted rock on Barf Fell that can be seen for miles around. It is said to be a monument marking where the Bishop of Londonderry fell off his horse and died in the late eighteenth century.
There is also a gallery and tearoom in Thornthwaite.
Threlkeld is a lively village four miles to the east of Keswick at the foot of Blencathra. It can be reached on foot or by bike along the old railway track which used to link Penrith and Keswick. The village is a thriving community with a church, school, two pubs, a public room and a quarry and mining museum. Up on the side of the mountain is the Blencathra Field Centre which used to be a tuberculosis isolation hospital but is now an educational residential centre.
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