Busy weekly market with 80 stalls of local produce, crafts and gifts.
Events calendar
Event calendar for Another Place, The Lake and The Brackenrigg Inn, live music, quiz nights, art installations, wild activities and more.
Featured events
Game, set and match
29 June - 12 July 2026
Ace your summer with our lakeside celebration of tennis. Stay at The Lake between 29 June-12 July and experience a winning combination of big-screen Wimbledon action, garden games, lake swims, open-air cinema, woodfired pizza and Lanson Champagne.
Skate by the lake
Winter 2026
This winter, our 200sqm ice rink returns to Ullswater. Experience the lake gardens aglow with seasonal cheer, with dedicated accessible and family-friendly skate sessions so everyone can join the fun.
A busy market running at the pretty small market town from mid February to end December, with a wide range of food, fresh produce and gifts.
Family-friendly shows to comedy, music and more. Discover a year-round packed programme of nationally acclaimed theatre on the lakeshore at Derwentwater.
Our love for dogs comes to life through art, photography and design in this family exhibition. Featuring works by acclaimed artists including William Wegman and David Shrigley, plus interactive activities for all ages. Dogs welcome for the first time in the gallery!
Shop stalls full of seasonal local produce, crafts and gift ideas, meet the local producers who hand-craft them, and enjoy a series of free talks throughout the day. Free entry, 10am-3pm.
Join a Wild Food UK foraging course at the historic Dalemain Estate, where the varied habitats of the parklands and gardens provide a rich selection of plants, trees and fungi to explore.
A Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Independent, BBC and Daily Mail Book of the Year. Join author Sarah Hall in conversation with Lee Schofield as she explores her latest book ‘Helm’.
Join the celebration of all things marmalade, with a series of talks and panels on marmalade making, beginning with the announcement of the category and overall winners.
Learn how sheepdogs are trained from youngsters to fully trained dogs. See the dogs run the sheep around a typical trial course. The demonstration will finish with two dogs working as a brace team. Demonstrations will be held every Thursday throughout May, June, July, August & September at 6pm regardless of the weather and will last approximately 1 hour.
‘Cumbria’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) – future challenges ’
with Councillor Giles Archibald and Steve Trotter, CEO Cumberland Wildlife Trust. Parkin memorial hall, Thursday 4 June at 7.30pm.
Bringing the World to the Lakes & the Lakes to the World...The Lake District Book Festival will feature big names and less big names, historians, journalists, thinkers and writers of all voices.
Ace your summer with our lakeside celebration of tennis. Stay at The Lake between 29 June-12 July and experience a winning combination of big-screen Wimbledon action, garden games, lake swims, open-air cinema, woodfired pizza and Lanson Champagne.