Maps of the Lake District
Not a map of where things are. The maps we can draw because we hold the data: every fell by list, every bus stop we have checked, every car park, every walk we have mapped, on the ground itself. Switch the layers on and off; each one has its own page with the argument behind it. For a map of where things are, buy the Ordnance Survey ones — OL4 to OL7 (opens in new tab) cover the lot.
Getting to a walk rather than looking at one? Getting there gathers the train, bus, car and boat pages, the Lake District by train and by boat among them.
- 597 of the 598 tops we hold, the 214 Wainwrights ringed
Ordnance Survey will tell you where a summit is; this tells you which list it is on, which is the question a Lakeland walker actually has.
Open the full map → - 581 of the 835 stops on our services fall on the plate
How far each of the 598 fells is from a bus stop in our data, banded by the walk to the nearest one. A distance, not a journey: whether a bus runs when you need it is the operator’s timetable, and the page says so.
Open the full map → - 936 of the 968 places to leave a car for a walk fall on the plate
Whether each one charges, what kind of parking it is and who runs it, from our own records rather than a directory. It does not say how full anywhere gets; for the National Park Authority’s own car parks it links to when the day’s tickets are bought, from the Authority’s data released under FOI.
Open the full map → - 233 walks, drawn from the GPX
Other maps show you paths; this shows you our routes, walked and planned, coloured by length on its own page.
Open the full map → - one line through all 214, 586 km
The published line through every Wainwright, solved with ways mapped as private or barred left out, drawn rather than described.
Open the full map → - hachured from the Copernicus terrain model
The shape of the ground itself across the whole National Park. Not where things are — what the ground does.
Open the full map → - Access and open countryno layer: we hold no boundary we could source
Where the right to roam actually applies, and where a path is a right of way rather than a courtesy. A reading, not a line on this plate.
Open the full map → - The Howgills, drawneast of the plate, east of the M6
A map that makes an argument: the Howgills sit outside the National Park boundary, which is the whole point of the piece.
Open the full map →
Every layer is drawn from a dataset on this site, and each map's page says which one and where it came from. The ground is the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model; the park boundary and the water are OpenStreetMap, ODbL. None of this is a substitute for a paper map and a compass on the hill — it is for the planning you do before you leave.