Sightseeing Day Tour to The Lake District from Chester
This is our award-winning full-day / 220-mile Sightseeing Day Tour to The Lake District from Chester.
It has been carefully designed with your leisure in mind. Not only is it a great price for such a tour but we always use our luxury vehicles ensuring everyone has plenty of seat space and a full window view.
This is sightseeing the way sightseeing is meant to be done! All our vehicles are latest models, carefully designed to a purpose-built sightseeing specification with panoramic windows, full PA system, overhead parcel shelves, luggage compartment(s) and forced air ventilation.
Day Trip to Lake District from Chester
Your Sightseeing Day Tour to The Lake District from Chester is fully escorted and narrated with a jolly driver and knowledgeable escort who, invariably, will become more of a friend than a tour guide! Ok our drivers know most things but not everything! so read their cheat sheets with information on Beatrix Potter, William Wordsworth or Sarah Nelson Famous Gingerbread shop. Every passenger receives special attention and is encouraged to participate in the day as much as possible to ensure that you have a wonderful time with us.
Your tour commences at 8:30am from outside the Chester Train Station on City Road, Chester CH1 3NS.
National Rail details for Chester Railway Station.
We will take you to places in the Lake District you thought didn’t (or couldn’t) exist and your driver & tour escort will keep you fully informed and advised as to points of interest and general knowledge regarding the ever-changing panoramic views.
This Lake District sightseeing tour has been carefully routed and planned with your driver tailoring the day to suit the weather, atmosphere and ambiance of the general group on board. This makes every tour unique, special and memorable and allows you to partake in as much (or little) as you feel comfortable with. You will never be put under any commitment or pressure to do anything that you don’t wish to.
After we have waved farewell to the spectacular City of Chester, we will hit the road to the legendary land of The Lake District in a 2-hour partially-narrated journey, navigating a spectacular section of the M6 motorway, passing Preston and Lancaster. On a clear day you’ll see the famous British “backbone” called The Pennines.
Cumbria’s most popular sprawling town developed after the opening of the railway line from Oxenholme and Kendal to Windermere in 1847. Home to a glorious lakeside boat launch. Here you can hop on the optional Lake Windermere Lake Cruise for a trip of a lifetime – (Boat cruise at own cost – Tickets purchased from driver/guide on day).
Largely Victorian and home to the Roman Galava Fort – ex-residence to 500 Roman soldiers. Ambleside grew rapidly when the ferry terminal opened in 1845. St Mary’s Church (1854) was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The 17th Century Bridge House over Stock Ghyll is one of the most photographed scenes in Lakeland.
The Langdales are home to some of the most dramatic and diverse scenery in the whole of Cumbria (if not Britain!) hosting some of the most photogenic scenery around. Weather permitting we’ll drive the “loop” of “Little Switzerland” and even attempt to walk a summit, working up an appetite for lunch or more scenery!
Most of the buildings date from the 19th or early 20th Century, though the Church dates from the 13th Century. William Worsdworth, who died in 1850, and his wife Mary, who died 9 years later, have a tombstone in the churchyard of St Oswald’s Church, one of the most visited literary shrines in the world.
This tiny, aroma-flooded quaint shop with happy costumed staff is neatly tucked away at the corner of the churchyard. You will browse through, soak up the history, and then sample this most wonderful delicacy before loading yourself up with bags of the stuff to distribute proudly to your friends (if it lasts that long)!
If traffic or weather conditions were to impact the above locations at short notice they can be substituted by the driver/guide to another stop on route.
BEATRIX POTTER
Born 28th July 1866. Her parents rented the Wray Castle near Ambleside and spent many holidays with her there. She spent most of her adult life here, inspired to write her books as well as landscape paintings and sketches. She died in 1943 leaving 14 farms and 4,000 acres of land to the National Trust.
JOHN RUSKIN
Born 8th February 1819. A poet, artist, critic, social revolutionary and conservationist. In 1871 he bought Brantwood near Coniston and was involved conservation after meeting Hardwicke Rawnsley and Octavia Hill, the founders of the National Trust in 1896.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE
A resident here from 1924 until his death in 1941. He wrote a large number of books while living at Brackenburn, including The Herries Chronicle and 15 volumes of his diaries.
ALFRED WAINWRIGHT
Famous for his 7 Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells created when he worked in the Borough Treasurers Office in Kendal from 1941. These handwritten, hand-drawn works of art have been the inspiration to all fell-walkers for the past 40 years. He died in 1991.