Set In Lake District?

[vernonk]

Has any novel or movie, unconnected to Wordsworth or Beatrix Potter, been set in the Lake District?

[bibblebub]

The most obvious is Swallows And Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and the area was used as the setting for The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams.

[TheOtherHalf]

The Lakes is the only one I can think of

[bibblebub]

Rather topically, Uncle Monty's cottage in Withnail & I is in the Lake District.

[emeritus]

Melvyn Bragg (Who is a Cumbrian) has written 3 Novels set in the Lakes

Known as the Cumbrian Trilogy

The Hired Man
A Place in England
Kingdom Come

[follyfancier]

there was a BBC tv serial a few years ago I think it was called The Lakes ,there was a restaurant or hotel in it but I can,t remember much more about it

[barbara1835]

Hugh Walpole's. Rogue Herries series.