Lake District Guidebooks
Guidebooks to the English Lake District and Cumbria more generally are plentiful, and follow in a long tradition. Possibly the best known down the years has been the Romantic poet William Wordsworth’s “Guide to the Lakes” published in the mid-19th century. Below we have a present-day selection. Most of the books here are general guides to the Lake District. See also our separate listings of guides to Lake District walks.




