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There is activity on both sides of the lake.

This 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.

Glentworth Bay is pictured just five years before the causeway was built, creating Marine Lake.

Set in beautiful woodland with a commanding view over the lake, this house was built in the grounds of the original Old Hall, which no longer exists.

He converted it to a boarding house and named it in memory of a house the family used on holidays in the Lake District. It is situated along Ayston Road, next to Meadhurst.

A pleasant setting against a backdrop of wooded hills and a gentle coastline with wonderful views to the southern Lakes helped establish Silverdale as a quietly fashionable medicinal sea-bathing resort

What is there more pleasurable than to take a rowing boat out onto a picturesque, well-treed lake, to escape for an afternoon of peace and relaxation away from Leicester's factories and mills?

The south façade of the house is built in the 17th-century English Renaissance style, with pedimented bays overlooking a terrace and lawn to a lake below.

Bodiam, built in the 14th century, stands in the centre of a lake-like moat covered in water lilies.

The plight of this poor girl was recounted in copious verses by the Lake Poets.

Southport has the country's longest pleasure pier, which runs for 1,211 yards over the marine boating lake and sands to the sea with attractions that included shows and amusement arcades, as well as a

Sleek craft such as these, or the sailing dinghy behind, have all but disappeared from today's municipal boating lakes, where pedalos and electric motorboats are now more the fashion.

There are lakes and extensive woodlands in the park, and also an old oak tree whose height is 42ft and whose girth is 21ft 6ins.

Not far from here is Fleet Pond, more of a lake than a pond.

In this view, the road is climbing to Black Lake, where it can be seen crossing the river.

A view along the north basin of the lake, including the islands of Belle Isle, Crow Holme, Maiden Holme and the two 'Lilies of the Valley'.

Pier for a trip on Windermere.At this time, private boat ownership was beyond the means of all but the wealthiest visitors, so this was most people's only chance of enjoying the scenery from the lake

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

Silecroft, near Millom, stands at the southernmost extremity of the Lake District National Park, at the foot of Black Combe (1,970ft).

An empty village street in Silecroft, a small settlement at the foot of Black Combe, at 1,970ft the southernmost of the major Lake District hills and a fine viewpoint across the Irish Sea.

The artificial lake occupies land formerly lapped by the sea before the railway cut it off from the shore. The houses were then just above the shoreline.

Black slaves were brought here from Liverpool before being transported onwards - Storrs Hall on Lake Windermere was one alleged destination. Cannon balls were exported from here.

Early closing day gives a peaceful air to this normally busy market town, built around a six-acre lake known as Diss Mere: local tradition says that it is bottomless.

They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.