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Looking West We are looking across the lake to the houses in Durham Street, with the Presbyterian church roof in the centre of the picture, and the Holy Rood Roman Catholic church on

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

The underground streams and lakes, which swirled around to form caverns, finally emerge as the river Axe. Until 1948 divers had only been able to reach and explore Chamber 9.

The new park boasted two lakes, one of which is now a rose garden. The Hall was demolished in 1909 to make way for the new Greenhead High School for Girls.

This picturesque small lake, often complete with ducks, sits at the northern end of a common in a large village.

This was once a lake that gradually filled with plants on which sphagnum moss grew. As the plants died, peat formed, which became a major source of fuel for the local inhabitants.

This later picture of the Belsfield Hotel emphasises its commanding position above the lake. The third storey was added when Schneider's former home became a hotel.

The picturesque loch, which is ringed with hills, features in Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

The cliffs at Heysham are the first coming north after the Great and Little Orme at Llandudno; they presented the Victorian visitor with breathtaking views over to the Lake District.

The usual view of the shapeliest mountains in the Lake District is from the head of Wasdale, where it dominates the scene.

The old chapel front was purchased during renovation and can still be found sited by the lake at Kettlethorpe Hall.

West of the pier a marine lake for pleasure boating was formed in 1895; it had nearly 40 acres of water and a 3-acre island.

Lancaster is on the edge of the Lake District, and an important point on routes both north and south.

It is culverted under the main road, and collects in a large lake, which lies between Broadwaters Lane and the estate of houses.

The reservoir was created in 1896; it is one of four 19th-century artificial lakes in Charnwood Forest - the others are Thornton (1854), Cropston (1870) and Blackbrook (1906), all man-made

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west

The Bowness ferry carries a coach and four across Lake Windermere.

Bold Venture Park is a disused quarry, with a lake and a picturesque waterfall.

He also operated coaching services across the Lake District to Ambleside, Grasmere and Keswick, and across the Windermere ferry to Hawkshead and Coniston.

Sandycombe (originally Solus) Lodge has altered little since Turner's time, although the gardens, small lake and extensive views towards the Thames have long since gone.

A previous Lord Byron, the fifth, an ex-Naval man, had a warship in the lake and built mock forts around its edges in the 1770s; this one is the only survivor, and is in fact a conversion of the stables

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.The traffic-free minor road meanders

The stream is the River Meden, which feeds into Thoresby's enormous ornamental lake.

A lake containing 48 million gallons of water was created in 1832 by the Farrar family; the water flow once powered an electrical turbine for the village.