The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Lake District shore
Windermere
- 1
Lake Windermere
Lake Windermere is worth allowing time for because it combines a distinctive landscape that can be understood through geology, land use and carefully chosen walking viewpoints. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are main landscape viewpoints and geological, coastal, moorland or mountain features. Its position in or near Windermere also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Mountain and Roman city
Wasdale / Chester
- 1
Scafell Pike
Scafell Pike is worth allowing time for because it combines a distinctive landscape that can be understood through geology, land use and carefully chosen walking viewpoints. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are main landscape viewpoints and geological, coastal, moorland or mountain features. Its position in or near Wasdale also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Chester City Walls
Chester City Walls is worth allowing time for because it combines a structure whose engineering, design and relationship with its surroundings can be read on site. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are key structural details, the building’s relationship with the surrounding streetscape or landscape and historic urban setting. Its position in or near Chester also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Waterfront and cathedral
Liverpool
- 1
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is worth allowing time for because it combines a structure whose engineering, design and relationship with its surroundings can be read on site. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are key structural details, the building’s relationship with the surrounding streetscape or landscape and historic urban setting. Its position in or near Liverpool also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Cathedral is worth allowing time for because it combines architecture, worship spaces, monuments and the changing use of a long-lived religious site. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are nave, choir and principal architectural details, memorials, chapels and historic fittings and historic urban setting. Its position in or near Liverpool also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
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Industry and estate
Manchester / Knutsford
- 1
Science and Industry Museum
Science and Industry Museum is worth allowing time for because it combines well-presented collections that connect objects and evidence with wider British and international history. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are permanent collection galleries and objects and displays linked to the site’s central story. Its position in or near Manchester also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Tatton Park
Tatton Park is worth allowing time for because it combines state rooms, architecture and the political or social history attached to a major residence. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are principal state or historic rooms, exterior architecture and landscaped setting, formal or botanical planting and contrasting garden and parkland areas. Its position in or near Knutsford also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 3
Lancaster Castle
Lancaster Castle is worth allowing time for because it combines fortified architecture and the way successive periods remain visible in walls, towers and domestic ranges. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are principal towers and defensive walls and historic residential or service ranges. Its position in or near Lancaster also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.