Places you can visit from

Alexandra Cottage

(These are not professional publicity photographs, but amateur photos taken on trips from the cottage using the District's Stagecoach buses)

Lake Windermere from Queen Adelaide's Hill (you can walk here from the cottage in less than half an hour)

Buttermere (travel to Keswick and pick up the No 77 or 77A Honister Rambler bus)

Grasmere from Loughrigg Terrace (555 bus to Rydal, then begin walk opposite the Glen Rothay Hotel's Badger Bar)

Derwent Water, Keswick (a one hour scenic trip on the 555 bus from Windermere)

Coniston from Brantwood, Ruskin's Home