There is no need to travel half way across the world to be surrounded by the finest scenery that nature has to offer. It is a mere two and three quarter hour train ride away from London in a magical ...

Soak up the scenery on an eight-day luxury self-guided walking tour of the Lake District, England’s newest World Heritage Site. Day one begins in Windermere, home of England’s largest natural lake.

If you were totally ignorant of England’s geography and new to its national parks, you’d probably first head for the Peak District in search of its tallest mountains. You’d find relatively nice hills ...

• England's Largest This storybook realm of hills, stonewalled fields, forests, whitewashed cottages, and clear waters is England’s largest national park. In fact, the Lake District covers about one ...

The deepest body in England, Wastwater sits in the remote western Lake District, surrounded by dramatic peaks such as Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Lingmell. Its brooding waters reach an incredible 79 ...

"It’s undoubtedly Britain’s equivalent to our Queenstown Lakes district. Windermere and the Lake District is England’s favourite national park, a sprawling tourist honeypot that stretches across ...

If I’d known that The Trip, released last summer and now available on DVD, was a buddy movie I probably never would have rented it. But, of course, the title snagged me and I’m glad it did because ...

Where we went: Our daughter recently moved to Henley-on-Thames, England. This has made it much easier to visit all the places in England we have dreamed about. This is a picture of Lake Ullswater, one ...

Hawkshead in the Lake District is a picture-perfect village that looks like it's been frozen in time, with its historic ...