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 somebody actually did, 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) (opens in new tab) cover the lot.
- 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 → - 576 of the 757 stops on our services fall on the plate
Which of the 598 fells a bus actually reaches. 238 have a checked stop within a kilometre and 128 more within five — most of Lakeland is reachable without a car, which is not how it feels reading a timetable.
Open the full map → - 977 of the 1,013 places to leave a car fall on the plate
What each one costs, how it is surfaced and how full it gets, from 1,013 pins and a council FOI return rather than a directory.
Open the full map → - 185 walks, drawn from the GPX
Other maps show you paths; this shows you walks somebody actually did, coloured by length on its own page.
Open the full map → - one line through all 214, 586 km
The published access-clean line through every Wainwright, 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.