Lake District Tours
Our Tours
Expert small-group tours of the Lake District, Brontë Country and the Yorkshire Dales. Maximum seven guests. A specialist expert storyteller throughout every mile.
Expert small-group tours of the Lake District, Brontë Country and the Yorkshire Dales. Maximum seven guests. A specialist expert storyteller throughout every mile.
Lake District Tours runs nine scheduled small-group tours and eight private historic-house tours across five houses, all with a maximum of seven guests, departing from Windermere. Scheduled tours cost from £79 per person and private tours from £459 per group. All tours depart from Windermere — most also pick up from Bowness and Ambleside — and every booking includes free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour.
The finest lake and fell scenery, covered in a morning or full day. Eight lakes, Castlerigg, Kirkstone Pass, Surprise View — a specialist expert storyteller throughout.
Eight lakes, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Surprise View, Grasmere Gingerbread — all before 1pm. A guide talking throughout every mile.
The same eight lakes in the afternoon light — often the finer of the two for photography. Departs 2pm, returns around 6pm.
Ten lakes, the Kirkstone Pass and an Ullswater Steamers cruise — the most comprehensive one-day Lake District experience available.
The Lake District through the writers and artists who lived here — Beatrix Potter, Wordsworth, and the Brontës across the Pennines.
Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Esthwaite Water and the land Beatrix Potter bought, farmed and left to the National Trust. The real story.
Wray Castle, Windermere, Hawkshead and Tabitha Twitchit's Bookshop — the full arc of her life in the Lakes, by water and on foot.
Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Rydal and Dora's Field — the landscape that produced the Prelude, with Gillian as your expert storyteller.
The afternoon companion to the morning tour — Rydal Mount, the churchyard, and the later years of Wordsworth's life in the Lakes.
Windermere to Haworth and back — through the Yorkshire Dales, the South Pennine moors, and the village where Charlotte, Emily and Anne wrote their novels. Haworth Parsonage entry included.
Every location from the Channel 5 series. Stand where James stood. Eat in the actual Drovers Arms. Live scene technology throughout. Nine hours. Maximum seven guests.
Exclusive private tours of five of Cumbria's finest historic houses and gardens — your group only, no shared timetable. Half day £459, full day from £459.
The world's oldest topiary garden, laid out in 1694 and unchanged since. An Elizabethan house around a medieval peel tower.
The Strickland family seat since 1239. A 14th-century peel tower, the finest Elizabethan carved interiors in the north of England.
The Cavendish family seat on the Cartmel Peninsula. A celebrated cascade garden and a house rebuilt after an 1871 fire.
One family since 1679, on the shore of Ullswater. Medieval, Tudor and Georgian, all still standing behind the same façade.
Seven centuries of organic growth around a medieval peel tower, in the remnant of the ancient royal forest of Inglewood.
Levens Hall, Sizergh Castle and Holker Hall each run as a morning or afternoon private tour — both sessions are shown once you open the tour page.
Every scheduled tour is available exclusively for your group. Or tell us what you are curious about — geology, family history, literature, wildlife — and we build a day around it.
Any scheduled tour, exclusively for your group. The expert storyteller's complete attention, your pace, your questions. From £459 for a half day.
A day nobody else has ever had. Tell us what you are curious about and we build a route and a conversation around it. Starts with a conversation.