Browsing local attractions within 8 miles of Millers Beck Country Guest House 

Levens, Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 0PD, (3 miles, 5kms), Tel: 015395 60321, Email, www.levenshall.co.uk

Elizabethan mansion and world famous topiary gardens designed by M Beaumont in 1694, fountain garden and buttery, licenced restaurant and gift shop.

Unit 27, Lake District Business Park, Mint Bridge, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6NH, (4 miles, 7kms), Tel: 01539 721766, Email, www.kendalwall.co.uk

Largest indoor climbing wall in Cumbria. From 3m to 20m high. Equipment and instruction available. Our Chamber is for quiet leading and top roping. Awsome 20m leading wall has roofs, grooves, belay cave, stalactites and auto-belays.

Low Sizergh Farm, Sizergh, Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 8AE, (2 miles, 4kms), Tel: 015395 60426, Email, www.lowsizerghbarn.co.uk

National award-winning farm shop, tea room and craft gallery in a fabulous barn on a woking family dairy farm in the South Lakes.

Sizergh, Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 8AE, (2 miles, 4kms), Tel: 015395 60951, Email, www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sizergh/

Medieval House with Tudor additions surrounded by a superb garden and large estate. Has been lived in by the Strickland family for over 760 years. Learn about the Elizabethan carvings and contents of the castle, and the gardens.

Friends Meeting House, Stramongate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4BH, (3 miles, 5kms), Tel: 01539 722975, Email, www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk

Explore 350 years of social history beautifully illustrated within 77 inspiring, colourful, modern embroidered panels. Shop, Cafe, audio guides, film, interactive displays, children's activities.

The Old Bank, The Promenade, Arnside, Lancashire, LA5 0HA, (7 miles, 12kms), Tel: 01524 761762, Email, www.gallery-h.co.uk

Leading international contemporary and traditional design collections of fine art, furniture and jewellery pieces. Exhibitions are held throughout the year. Online shopping at www.galleryh.co.uk

Raines Hall Farm, Sedgwick, Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 0JH, (0.9 miles, 1kms), Tel: 015395 61760, Email, www.lakelandmaze.co.uk

Family attraction, maze, soft play, go karts, animals, pets, events, parties and refreshments.

Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, LA8 8LX, (5 miles, 8kms), Tel: 01539 816300, Email, www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk

Casterton, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth, Lancashire, LA6 2LF, (8 miles, 13kms)

Circle has a diameter of 60' and stands on a flattened mound or platform. There are 20 uprights, none more than 2' high and suggesting perhaps the kerb of a destroyed cairn.

Carlisle, Cumbria, LA8 8LX, (5 miles, 8kms), Tel: 01539 816300, Email, www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/

Birkrigg, Urswick, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0PG, (8 miles, 13kms)

Double Circle of stones surrounding cremations in urns (removed). 'Platform' cairn, small barrows, Romano-British farmsteads.

Made in Cumbria, 25 Stramongate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4BH, (3 miles, 5kms), Tel: 01539 735891, Email

Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 5AL, (3 miles, 5kms), Tel: 01539 722464, Email, www.abbothall.org.uk

Abbot Hall is one of Britain's finest independent art galleries in a beautiful setting beside the river Kent and overlooked by the ruins of Kendal castle.

Station Road, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6BT, (4 miles, 6kms), Tel: 01539 721374, Email, www.kendalmuseum.org.uk

One of the oldest museums in the country with outstanding collections of natural history, archaeology and local history. Programme of exhibitions and events.