With its mountains, lakes, and undulating emerald-green hills, the Lake District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and England’s biggest national park, in the northwest county of Cumbria, has been enchanting visitors for centuries. Here are some of the quaintest, most picturesque villages that you can visit in this most inspiring of landscapes.
The village of Grasmere, set in a pretty vale just north of its namesake lake, is crowned by magnificent fells and mountains and surrounded by scattered hamlets and farmsteads. The area was once a major draw for artists, writers, and painters. Poet William Wordsworth described the vale of Grasmere and Rydal as “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found”, and both John Constable and JMW Turner, two of Britain’s most
