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Penrith received its first market charter in 1223, and it has continued as a busy market town serving the north-east of the Lake District and the North Pennines ever since.

Immediately below the viewpoint, the River Rothay winds into England's largest lake by Gale Naze Crag in the centre of the picture.

With playing fields, a recreation area, a lake and woodlands, it is very popular with the local townspeople. There are fine views over the town and to the wooded slopes beyond.

Much of this lovely valley is now cloaked under a blanket of conifers, as are so many of the Lake District dales.

This is the southern or `t`Cheshire side` of the lake, with the roof of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Hotel, which opened on 17 December 1875, just visible in the centre.

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.This must have been

The lake in the foreground is used for fishing; it is fed by Wrinstone Brook, which flows through Dinas Powis to join the Cadoxton River.

Rannerdale Knotts is the small dark hill in the middle distance above the lake.

Even the elegant steam cruiser the 'Gondola', seen here moored at the pier, is still taking passengers up and down the lake.

Bretby Park, seen here on its hilltop site across the lake in the 600-acre park, was built between 1812-13 by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville in a castellated, mock-Gothic style.

Built around 1840 to carry the London and North Western railway line north through Lancashire, this splendid six-arch bridge strides across the River Wyre just below Scorton Lakes.

Although called Wyre View, the outlook is across Morecambe Bay to the Lake District.

The gardens and lake were laid out later. The house survived, and has recently been converted to a luxury

With playing fields, a recreation area, a lake and woodlands, it is very popular with the local townspeople. There are fine views over the town and to the wooded slopes beyond.

This simple stone obelisk on the summit of Friar's Crag, Derwent Water, commemorates the great Victorian art critic and Lake District conservationist John Ruskin.

The Hove boating lake, which is an eastwards continuation of the lagoon on which Shoreham harbour stands, has been beloved by generations of children.

Welburn was developed as an estate village in the late 19th century around the vast lands surrounding Castle Howard.

This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.

Snow dusts the shapely 3,053 ft summit of Skiddaw, the giant among the northern fells, and one of the first popular mountain climbs in the Lake District.

The provision of the public gardens of the Promenade at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort for

Today, after considerable localised replanting, there are over 2,000 acres of woodland in the vicinity, through which wander numerous walking and cycling trails all centred on Lake Delamere.

A little south of this view is Queen's Park with its boating lake, but the town is not noted for its great architecture.

Fed by the artificial 120-acre lake behind it, this picturesque cascade was created in 1746-68 as part of the extensive landscaping carried out by the artist brothers Thomas and Paul Sandby for the Duke

Ambleside is situated at the centre of the Lake District; this is now a haven for walkers, and a very busy place in the summer months. Here a lady negotiates the stepping stones with trepidation.