Locations around Keswick
This is the first in a series of guides detailing some of my favourite locations for taking photographs in the English Lake District. As Keswick is where I hold most of my exhibitions, I tend to take a lot of photographs around this area so it seemed like a good place to start.
You can see larger versions of the photographs that I've taken in these locations in the Online Shops.
Keswick Boat Landings
(OS grid reference NY 268-235)
Park in the pay & display car park just before the Theatre by the Lake. Walk out onto the road and head off down the hill to the boat landings. In fact, out of season, you can actually park the car at the boat landings themselves as the summer parking…
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Friars Crag
(OS grid reference NY 264-228)
Carry on walking right past the boat landings and follow the wide path with Derwentwater on your right. After about half a mile, you will come to Friars Crag, a promontory jutting out into the lake…
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Castlehead
(OS grid reference NY 270-227)
Take the B5289 Borrowdale road out of Keswick and, after about 200 yards, turn left up a short flight of stone steps into the woods. Follow any of the many paths up to the summit…
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Ashness Bridge
(OS grid reference NY 270-196)
Ashness Bridge can be located by taking the narrow road to Watendlath, a left-turn off the B5289 Borrowdale road, about three miles south of Keswick. The bridge can be found a few hundred yards up this road. There is a NT car park (free) ...
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Surprise View
(OS grid reference NY 258 -189)
This is about half a mile further along the Watendlath road. Just around a sharp left hand bend, there is a NT car park (free) on the left directly opposite it just past the entrance to Ashness Farm. You could leave the car and walk up from…
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Watendlath
(OS grid reference NY 276 -163)
Just continue past Surprise View until the road ends at the small hamlet of Watendlath. This is a good road but quite narrow…
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Catbells
(OS grid reference NY 244-199)
You can board one of the launches going anti-clockwise around Derwentwater at Keswick Boat Landings and get off at Hawes End. You then walk through the woods away from the landing stage and out onto the road at the metal gateway…
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Latrigg
(OS grid reference NY 278-246)
There is a lay-by at the top of Gale Road. From Keswick, take the A591 Carlisle road, turn right a few yards after the roundabout intersection with the A66 and then right again uphill, very sharply. Follow the signposts to Skiddaw…
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Tewet Tarn
(OS grid reference NY 304-235)
Leave Keswick by the A66 in the direction of Penrith. A few hundred yards after its junction with the A591 turn right. Take the third right after about a mile and at the top of the hill you will see a footpath sign on the right…
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Castlerigg Stone Circle
(OS grid reference NY291-236)
Leave Keswick by the A66 in the direction of Penrith. The circle is accessed by following the brown monument signs on minor roads. Car parking is in a lay-by opposite the gate into the circle…
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