Keswick Area
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Keswick on Derwentwater and the Northern Lakes covers one half of the Lake District National Park.
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Keswick was granted a charter for a market in 1276 by Edward I. The market is held every Saturday in the pedestrianised main street in the middle of the town. The marketplace features the Moot Hall which once acted as the town hall but is now a local tourist information office.
Keswick is the home of the modern Theatre by the Lake which is the permanent home for repertoire and festivals. The town is home to the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum, a motor vehicle museum featuring celebrity cars from television and film, and Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, a Victorian museum which features the famous Musical Stones of Skiddaw.
Keswick is also the site of the Cumberland Pencil Museum. This details the manufacturing history of pencils and shows how pencils have been used through the ages. One of the exhibits is what is claimed to be the world's largest pencil.
Castlerigg stone circle, a well preserved prehistoric monument which is on the level top of a low hill with views across to Skiddaw, Blencathra and Lonscale Fell, is two miles away.
The town used to be linked to Cockermouth and Penrith via the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway which closed in 1972. There is a project to reopen the railway.
