National Trust Properties in Cumbria

National Trust in the Lake District & Cumbria

The National Trust’s most important work in Cumbria is the conservation of about one quarter of the Lake District National Park. Almost all the central fell area and the major valley heads are owned or held on lease by the trust, 91 farms, twenty four lakes and tarns, and much of their shoreline are also fully protected. These 123,500 acres are about a quarter of the National Trust’s entire holding.

The Main National Trust Properties

image of Acorn Bank, a National Trust at Penrith — Acorn Bank

Acorn Bank Mill at Penrith — Acorn Bank Mill

Allan Bank, Grasmere. Home of William Wordsworth and later Canon Rawnsley — Allan Bank

Beatrix Potter Gallery at Hawkshead — Beatrix Potter Gallery

Fell Foot at Newby Bridge — Fell Foot

Hill Top - Beatrix Potter's House at Near Sawrey — Hill Top

Sizergh Castle at Levens — Sizergh Castle

Stagshaw Gardens at Ambleside — Stagshaw Gardens

Steam Yacht Gondola at Coniston — Gondola

Townend House at Troutbeck, Windermere — Townend House

Wordsworth House, Cockermouth. Birthplace & home of the poet William Wordsworth — Wordsworth House

Wray Castle at Ambleside — Wray Castle

National Trust Lakes

Buttermere near Cockermouth & Keswick — Buttermere

Crummock Water near Cockermouth & Keswick — Crummock Water

Derwentwater near Keswick — Derwentwater

Elterwater in the Great Langdale Valley — Elterwater

Ennerdale Water in the Western Lakes — Ennerdale Water

Grasmere, near Grasmere Village & Ambleside — Grasmere

Loweswater near Cockermouth & Keswick — Loweswater

Rydal Water near Rydal Village & Grasmere — Rydal Water

Wastwater near Wasdale Head. Deepest of all the Lakes — Wastwater

National Trust Tarns

Brothers Water, Patterdale, at the end of the Kirkstone Pass — Brothers Water

Blea Tarn, The Langdales, easily accessible — Blea Tarn

Little Langdale Tarn, at the foot of the Wrynose Pass — Little Langdale Tarn

Loughrigg Tarn, near Grasmere & Ambleside — Loughrigg Tarn

Overwater Tarn, near Ireby & Bassenthwaite, Keswick — Overwater Tarn

Tarn Hows, Coniston, bequeathed to the National Trust by Beatrix Potter — Tarn Hows

Watendlath Tarn, Borrowdale, near Keswick. — Watendlath Tarn

Yew Tree Tarn, Coniston, easily accessible — Yew Tree Tarn

Other National Trust properties open to the public

Bridge House at Ambleside — Bridge House

Cartmel Priory Gatehouse — Cartmel Priory Gate

Castlerigg Stone Circle near Keswick — Castlerigg Circle

Dalton Castle at Dalton in Furness — Dalton Castle

Derwent Isle House, Derwentwater, near Keswick — Derwent Isle House

Galva Roman Fort near Ambleside — Galva Roman Fort

Daffodils at Wordsworth Point, Ullswater — Wordsworth Point

Hardknott Roman Fort at Eskdale — Hardknott Fort

Hawkshead Courthouse, South Lakes — Hawkshead Court

Keld Chapel at Shap, between Penrith & Kendal — Keld Chapel

High Close Estate near Ambleside — High Close Estate

Church Stile at Grasmere — Church Stile

Force Crag Mine, near Braithwaite, Keswick — Force Crag Mine

Yew Tree Farm at Coniston, Beatrix Potter's Farm — Yew Tree Farm

Claife Heights viewing station at Far Sawrey — Claife Heights

Cathedral Cave (Cathedral Quarry) - Langdale — Cathedral Cave

National Trust Landscape

Aira Force near Ullswater — Aira Force

Borrowdale near Keswick — Borrowdale

The Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, near Keswick — The Bowder Stone

Dora's Field, Rydal Village — Dora's Field

Edward VII Memorial Stone, Grange, near Keswick — Edward VII Memorial

Brandlehow Wood, Derwentwater, Keswick — Brandlehow Wood

Friar's Crag, Derwentwater, Keswick — Friar's Crag

Great Langdale, South Lakes — Great Langdale

Little Langdale, near Eskdale & Ambleside — Little Langdale

Scale Force, near Crummock. Highest waterfall in the Lakes — Scale Force

Wordsworth Point, Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater. — Wordsworth Point

Other places not on here yet – Arnside Knott, Cockshott Point, Dunnerdale, Plumpton Marsh, Sandscale Haws, Solway Commons, Wetherall Woods, Whitemoss Common.