The Florence Mine Heritage Centre runs along side the Egremont Mining Company to offer underground tours so that our visitors can experience for themselves what...

Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven, is an educational and informative developing museum based on the local industrial and social mining history. The museum houses the...

Situated on Whitehaven’s striking harbourside, the recently refurbished Beacon is home to Copeland’s treasured museum collection. Journey through the areas rich heritage from pre-history to...

Lowes Court Gallery displays contemporary and traditional art and craft by artists from Cumbria and bordering counties. The Gallery, an 18th century listed building houses...

Sellafield is one of the most famous sites owned by BNFL and has had a long and controversial existence in Cumbria. The visitors centre...

Gosforth Pottery is situated 200 yards from the A595 at the northern end of Gosforth. We have been making pots professionally for twenty years. As...

The most beautiful train journey in England. Situated in the English Lake District this 15" Narrow Gauge Railway carries passengers from the old Roman Port...

Home to the Penningtons for 800 years, experience the wild splendour of over 70 acres of plants and trees from all over the world -...

The impressive remains of the Roman bath house at Ravenglass are among the most complete in Britain. Ravenglass was an important strategic port and naval...

The Lake District Coast Aquarium is an award winning, privately owned medium-sized aquarium. We specialise in native British aquatic life and have 20 years’ experience...

Maryport has a long history that is associated with the sea, and many of the people here have been involved with maritime affairs, or are...

Part of Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site, the museum is sited on cliffs overlooking the harbour at Maryport. The oldest antiquarian collection in the country,...

Here is a real hands-on opportunity to meet Cumbria’s most famous residents. Visitors are guaranteed a wonderfully woolly experience as we bring you face-to-face...

Elva Plain is a small stone circle on the southern slope of Elva Hill near Cockermouth in Cumbria. It’s located in the middle of a...

Scale Force lies to the south of Crummock Water, near the village of Buttermere (and close to Keswick). It’s the highest waterfall in the...

This beautiful Georgian townhouse is located within the charming town of Cockermouth in Cumbria, and is noted as the birthplace of William Wordsworth in 1770....

Jennings Brewery is situated in the shadow of historic Cockermouth Castle. Discover how our real ales are still brewed in the traditional way using pure...

Castlegate House is a commercial gallery specialising in northern and Scottish artists. Sited in a beautiful Georgian House it mounts 8 exhibitions each year and...

The Wordsworth Trust was founded in 1891, to secure Dove Cottage ’for eternal possessions of all those who loved English poetry all over the world’....

For over 30 years Thornthwaite Galleries has been a ‘country gallery’ and a true centre of excellence for artists exhibiting the very best of painstaking...