Squirrel Bank cottage a self catering lake district cottage just outside Bowness on Windermere, in the Lake District National Park

If you are in any doubt about the sheer beauty of the Lakeland landscape, then these four pictures should demonstrate why many people believe it to be the most beautiful place in the world. All of the locations featured here are within a few miles of Squirrel Bank Cottage.

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	The Langdale Pikes from Windermere. Picture © Ben Barden. Cumbria Tourism
	Sailing Boats moored at Waterhead Picture © Ben Barden. Cumbria Tourism
	The Borrowdale Valley Picture © Jonathan Craig
	Wastwater "Britain's Favourite View", as voted for in August 2007 by viewers to the ITV programme of the same name. Picture © Martin Rushton

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