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The first steam-powered vessel to sail on Windermere, the Lady of the Lake, was built by Richard Ashburner of Greenodd.

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

This is the largest freshwater lake in Yorkshire, covering 467 acres; it is two miles long and one mile wide. It was created by glacial erosion in the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago.

This view was taken looking across White Cross Bay to the northern end of the lake.

Sad to say, since swimming was stopped owing to pollution of the lake, the structure has not been used.

Francis Frith's coachman takes a well-earned rest. His carriage has stopped near the summit of one of the most famous of the Lake District passes. It connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

The Fylde area has long-been popular with holiday-makers, for it is well-sited for day-trips to the Lake District as well as the sea-side resorts of the Blackpool coast.

This boating lake opened in 1930.

There is a large pier, a tramway, and a kind of Rosherville Garden with a lake for boating.

Francis Frith's coachman takes a well-earned rest. His carriage has stopped near the summit of Kirkstone, one of the most famous of the Lake District passes, which connects Troutbeck with Patterdale.

A subsequent casualty of the automobile age, this popular hotel, with its three patient horses waiting for their passengers, stood alongside the A3 at Wisley until it was demolished to make room for the

The church and the house amongst the trees beside the lake in Eastwell Park make a haunting and atmospheric view.

At the time before the coming of the motor car in significant numbers, there were many roads like this in the Lake District, and life continued among the hills at the same leisurely pace as it had for

A mile to the west lies Fleet Pond, Hampshire's largest freshwater lake.

During the era before the coming of the motor car in significant numbers, there were many roads like this in the Lake District, and life continued among the hills at the same leisurely pace as it had for

It is believed to have been a dwelling that once stood upon a lake, perhaps in the Bronze Age. The end house is in use as a shop, which would have served the caravan park on the land next to it.

The boating lake was an original feature from 1868, and was placed at the east end of the main avenue through the park.

So successful was the boating lake, which opened in 1924, that six years later it was doubled in size by an extension south of the big bridge.

The Troutbeck valley is one of the quietest in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district can

He lived for nearly 30 years at Brantwood, opposite the village on the eastern shore of the lake, and preferred to be buried here, rather than to have a grander tomb in Westminster Abbey.

Herbert H Raphael`s gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden Suburb

Outdated, mothballed or paid- off vessels were often moored at this spot off the mouth of Millbrook Lake.

The Gondola was built in 1859 to take tourists up and down the lake, but was later neglected and became a rotting hulk before being restored in 1980 by its present owners, the National Trust.

The rocky knoll of Biskey Howe, rising abruptly above the built-up area of Bowness, has long been a favourite viewpoint – from here a large proportion of the lake is visible.