guiding services - driver-guided tours - special interest day tours - genealogical tours - services to business  
Beatrix Potter tours - heritage and tourism training/consultancy - illustrated talks/lectures
 
Ashness Bridge Ullswater
 
walking and sightseeing tours for individuals and groups
   
Cumbrian Discoveries' personalised tours are:
  • tailor-made walking and sightseeing tours
  • on foot, by coach, mini-bus or people carrier
  • designed to meet your specific needs
  • from half a day to as many days as you require

With our many years of experience in operating in Cumbria, and with the contacts we have, we are able to offer that something special and unusual in our itineraries; to give our visitors a unique experience of this beautiful area.

We can provide private visits, opportunities to meet local people and experience local events.

Blue Badge Guides lead our tours as we know that they will bring out the very best of an area and care for our groups' needs.

Blue Badge Guides are professional tourist guides who have been selected, trained, examined and registered. The Blue Badge is the nationally recognized emblem of excellence. Blue Badge Guides have been trained to recognize the different needs of widely varying groups and to be entertaining, interesting and caring to all. Amongst our guides are those with special expertise in a variety of subjects and those with language qualifications.

 
walking tours
 

Cumbrian Discoveries' walking tours are specially designed to your specifications.

They can be cross-country or town walks.

Our walks reflect the great natural beauty of the landscape, the immensely rich history and culture of the area, literary heritage, farming, flora and fauna and rural crafts and industries.

Enjoy this remarkable area both past and present.

 
       
 
You choose where and how far you want to walk, what you would like to see,
and leave the rest to us.
 
       
 
sightseeing tours
 

Cumbrian Discoveries' sightseeing tours are customised guided tours by coach, mini-bus or people carrier (see driver-guided tours).

Our sightseeing tours are for any group leader or organiser bringing a group into Cumbria who would like help and advice with their itinerary using our specialist knowledge.

We specialise in study tours, often covering a theme - literature, arts and crafts, farming, architecture for example. We are happy to respond to any requests.

nothing is too much trouble

 
 

Contact us with your requirements; any specific interests; dates, if you have them at this point; and how much time you would like to be with us. We can then prepare a customised itinerary, if needed, to meet your requirements.

if you just want to make a general enquiry - please e-mail us

 
PRICE -
quotes given according to your request
 
our tours are planned exclusively for you

 

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walking
and
sightseeing
individuals
and
groups
meeting locals
local events
 
 
 
cross-country
town or village
 
to your
specifications
 
memorable
experience
 
specialist
knowledge
 
 
respond to
any requests