The M6 skirts the Eastern edge of Cumbria from Kendal in the south to Carlisle in the north. The county is within 1.5 hours drive of Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle, and only 5 hours from London and the south-east.
National Express has a service daily from London calling at Birmingham which cuts through the central lakes stopping at Windermere, Ambleside, Grasmere, Keswick, Cockermouth,
Workington and Whitehaven.