Walk · Cumbria

Round Derwent Water from Keswick

Keswick · CA12 5DJ

10.7MILES

4h 45mON FOOT

260mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 62%Lane & track 26%Road with traffic 12%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Lakeside car park, Keswick, beside the Theatre by the Lake CA12 5DJ

Parking

Paid, around 300 spaces across Lakeside and the adjacent Central car park, but both full by 10am at half term; Great Wood on the east shore is the quieter alternative

Directions to the start →

Ten and three quarter miles and about four and three quarter hours, near-level shoreline the whole way round with only 260 metres of climb in it, most of that on the Manesty side. Start at the Lakeside car park by the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, paid and large but full by ten in season; the Keswick Launch stops at seven jetties round the lake and takes dogs, so the walk can be cut short at any of them. This is the best long lake walk in the county for a dog - shingle bays every few hundred yards, shade under the Brandelhow oaks, and bowls outside the theatre cafe - but the Calfclose Bay and Manesty fields are grazed, the launch jetties get crowded, and the short stretch of the Borrowdale road at Barrow Bay has no pavement.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads in the grazed fields at Calfclose Bay and Manesty, on the jetties, and along the two short pavement-free stretches of the Borrowdale road. Ground-nesting birds on the Great Bay marsh from April to July.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Water bowls

Off-lead allowed

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.5968, -3.1382

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/2795213/HIKING-AROUND-KESWICK

Round Derwent Water from Keswick

House rules, decoded

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