Getting There

You can travel to the Lake District by car via the M6 motorway and then on the A591 from the south [Junction 36] or the A66 in the north [Junction 40], but you can also avoid any congestion, especially at busy times, by going by train to Windermere [changing from the westcoast mainline at Oxenholme] or to Penrith [on the mainline]. Other parts of Cumbria are served well by train with Carlisle, Penrith and Oxenholme station on the main London to Glasgow line, and direct trains from Manchester Airport to Barrow and Ulverston. There is also the line going around the coast of the county from Barrow to Carlisle via Millom, Whitehaven, Workington and Maryport.