--- title: "Not to miss | Visit Keswick, Lake District" url: https://visitkeswick.com/explore/not-to-miss description: "The landmarks around Keswick worth making time for, with how long each one takes and whether you need a car." --- ## If you only do a few things These eight places are all in the northern Lake District, within easy reach of Keswick's Market Square. These are the places people come back for. None of them is far — the furthest is under six miles from the Market Square — and several can be done on foot from the town centre in under an hour. Where a place can be reached by launch or by bus, its page says so. Two of the eight need no transport at all. The eighth is not on the map below because it is already underneath it: [Keswick’s parks](https://visitkeswick.com/do/parks) — Hope Park and Fitz Park, both a short walk from the square, with gardens, a putting green, crazy golf and the river. Loading map… - [Castlerigg Stone Circle](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/not-to-miss/castlerigg-stone-circle) - [Friars Crag](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/not-to-miss/friars-crag) - [Castlehead](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/not-to-miss/castlehead) - [The Bowder Stone](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/not-to-miss/the-bowder-stone) - [Ashness Bridge and Surprise View](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/not-to-miss/ashness-bridge) - [Dubwath Silver Meadows](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/not-to-miss/dubwath-silver-meadows) - [Keswick’s parks](https://visitkeswick.com/do/parks) - [Watendlath Tarn](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/valleys/watendlath) - [Keswick](https://visitkeswick.com/explore/town) The Castlerigg stone circle on open grass with the fells rising all around An hour Castlerigg Stone Circle Thirty-eight stones on a plateau a mile and a half east of town, five thousand years old, with a ring of mountains all round. Derwentwater lying still with the fells reflected seen from Friars Crag On foot from town Friars Crag Ten minutes from the Market Square, for the view down Derwentwater that John Ruskin called among the finest in Europe. Keswick and the valley seen from Castlehead through the branches of a leaning Scots pine Under an hour Castlehead A wooded hill of 162 metres, five minutes out of the square, with a dial at the top naming thirty fells. The Bowder Stone balanced on its edge with a wooden ladder leaning against it Climbable The Bowder Stone Two thousand tonnes of volcanic rock balanced on its edge in Borrowdale, with a ladder to the top. A low stone bridge carrying a narrow road across a beck below the fells Arrive by boat Ashness Bridge and Surprise View The packhorse bridge off the Watendlath road, and the panorama a hundred yards above it. Reachable by launch and a twenty-minute walk. A turf-roofed bird hide at the end of a boardwalk through meadow grass and flowers Free, and level Dubwath Silver Meadows Seven hectares of wetland at the head of Bassenthwaite, with boardwalk, willow hides and red squirrels at the feeders. Clipped trees and deep flower borders in the gardens at Hope Park In town Keswick’s parks Hope Park and Fitz Park, both a short walk from the square — gardens, a putting green, crazy golf and the river. Watendlath Tarn lying among walled fields high in the fells Half a day Watendlath Tarn A hamlet and a tarn at the end of a dead-end lane above Borrowdale — one of the hidden corners of the district. A tarn lying in green hedged fields with the fells rising beyond ## Without a car Friars Crag and Castlehead are both walks from the Market Square. Ashness Bridge can be reached by [the Derwentwater launch](https://visitkeswick.com/do) to Ashness Gate and twenty minutes up the lane. The Bowder Stone is on the 78 to Borrowdale, which runs all year. Castlerigg has a [circular walk from Keswick](https://visitkeswick.com/do/walking-routes/castlerigg-stone-circle) if you would rather not park on the verge. [Bus times and routes](https://visitkeswick.com/visitor-info/getting-to-keswick) are on the getting here page. [Find somewhere to stay](https://visitkeswick.com/stay) ## For AI agents - API catalogue: https://visitkeswick.com/.well-known/api-catalog - Guide for AI agents: https://visitkeswick.com/llms.txt - A2A agent card: https://visitkeswick.com/.well-known/agent-card.json - MCP server card: https://visitkeswick.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json - Personal Agent Protocol: https://visitkeswick.com/.well-known/poppy.json - Live availability and booking: the site's tools above (MCP connector at https://visitkeswick.com/mcp).