A landscape conservation charity has launched a new set of virtual tours.
Friends of the Lake District announced that people can now explore its land from anywhere in the world.
Following the successful pilot of the High Borrowdale virtual tour last year, the new tours include common land in the Westmorland Dales, and several woodlands ranging from Ambleside to Eskdale.
The largest property covered is Little Asby Common, east of Orton, a limestone habitat which includes part of Sunbiggin Tarn and which sits within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Farmland next door at Mazonwath has its own tour where Friends of the Lake District volunteers have rebuilt dry stone walls, planted trees, and restored a hay meadow.
The tours also include four woodlands: Mike’s Wood near Staveley, Greenbank and Sweden Woods in Ambleside, and Hows Wood in Eskdale.
The online 360-degree tours, created by the aerial photographer Colin Aldred, allow virtual visitors to explore on a home computer, VR headset, or mobile, diving into key elements such as history, wildlife, ecology, and land management activities via short videos and image collections.
Jan Darrall, land manager at Friends of the Lake District, said: "The new tours cover a range of Friends of the Lake District’s land.
"We know that many people may not get the opportunity to visit these wonderful places in person, so we wanted to give them an alternative way to explore these spectacular landscapes and learn about our efforts in managing them.
"As you fly over these places, you can learn about the work we’ve been doing to enhance the Cumbrian landscape.
"This includes hay meadow restoration, creating new native woodland, restoring conifer woodlands back to native oak and birch woods, and even revealing the history of a Victorian extended garden."
In conjunction with the virtual tours, the charity is also installing digital information points around some of its properties, enabling visitors to access content via their phones on visits to the land.
Jan Darrall added: "We’re so proud of what we’ve achieved on our land, and we are delighted that we now have new ways of sharing this with people.
"We’ll be launching even more virtual tours next year.
"Of course, we still want to encourage people to pay a visit in person to these wonderful places and we have dedicated our land as open access in perpetuity, so anyone can enjoy it at any time long into the future."
All the virtual tours currently available can be found on the Friends of the Lake District website.
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