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Borrowdale

"The Mountains of Borrowdale are perhaps as fine as anything we have seen,"

wrote John Keats in 1818. Six miles long, this brooding, mysterious valley, steep and narrow with towering crags and deep woods, is generally regarded as the most beautiful in the Lake District. Just to the south of Derwent Water are the Lodore Falls, where the Watendlath Beck drops some 120 feet before reaching the lake. Further along the dale, in woodland owned by the National Trust, stands the extraordinary Bowder Stone, which provides an irresistible photo-opportunity for most visitors. A massive 50-foot square and weighing almost 2000 tons, it stands precariously on one corner apparently defying gravity. Just south of Rosthwaite the road turns westwards to the village of Seatoller where there's a National Park Information Centre, and a minor road turns off to Seathwaite, which enjoys the unenviable reputation of being the wettest place in England with an average of 131 inches a year. From Seatoller, the B5289 slices through the spectacular Honister Pass, overlooked by dramatic 1000-foot-high Honister Crag. At the top of the pass, the 18th-century Honister Slate Mine has been re-opened and is once again producing the beautiful green slate that adorns so many Lakeland houses and is famous throughout the world. Buckingham Palace, The Ritz, New Scotland Yard and RAF Cranwell are among the prestigious buildings decorated with this stone. Helmets and lights are provided for a guided tour through great caverns of the mine to show how a mixture of modern and traditional methods is still extracting the slate, which was formed here some 400 million years ago.