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About the Tours

There are a number of ways you can wander round this website.

You can make your own way round the website by looking at a list of all the pages and making your own selection from them. Each page has a list of links to pages on related topics.

[ see the index to pages   »

You can also see a few pages all relating to one particular topic, presented one after another in order.
We call this a tour. There are a number of tours, listed below. At the end of a particular tour, you will come back to this page so that you can select another tour if you wish. You can of course leave a tour at any point by following one of the links on the left of each page, or by just going away. We shall be adding more pages and more tours during the period of the exhibition (July 2010 to June 2011).The home page of this website will always show when the latest information was added.

Here is the list of tours:

• You can follow the footsteps of Coleridge’s tour in 1799 and learn more about what he saw. The tour is illustrated by some excerpts from the notebooks he made during the tour.

[ take the Coleridge tour   »

• You can learn more about the effect of tourism on Ambleside

[ take the Ambleside tour   »

• You can learn more about the effect of tourism on Grasmere

[ take the Grasmere tour   »

• You can learn more about the effect of tourism on Keswick

[ take the Keswick tour   »

• You can learn more about the effect of tourism generally

[ take the impact of tourism tour   »

• You can learn more about the entertainment provided for tourists

[ take the entertainment tour   »

• You can learn more about the growth of the theatre in the Lake District

[ take the theatre tour   »

• You can learn more about the growth of the museums in the Lake District

[ take the museums tour   »

• You can learn more about guidebooks and guides

[ take the guidebook tour   »

• You can learn more about Wordsworth’s attitude to tourists

[ take the Wordsworth’s attitude tour   »

• You can learn more about the changes in transport

[ take the transport tour   »

• You can learn more about some of the famous Lake District painters of the day

[ take the painters tour   »