Lake District Drive with Show Me Cumbria - Part 2

The continuation of our Lake District drive by Andy of "Show Me Cumbria".

 This is Wray Castle, where Beatrix Potter spent a summer here and met Cardinal Hardwicke Rawnsley, who started the National Trust. It inspired her to purchase land for conservation. The castle was built to impress in 1840 as it still does to this day.

 The grounds are also magnificent.

 We stopped in Hawkshead that had an impressive small church.

 It also had this shop, the Honeypot, that had lots of nice foods and meat pasties. They were a delicious takeaway.

 We then took the ferry from the West side of Windermere to the East side.

There we stopped by the waterfront of Bowness-on-Windermere which was dreadfully full of tourists...and swans and ducks.