Geography
Hawkshead is placed upright n of Esthwaite Lake, in the valley to the west of Windermere and east of Coniston Water. It a share of Furness, making it a a share of the traditional county of Lancashire but in the administrative county of Cumbria.

History
A town of Hawkshead was originally owned per monks of Furness Abbey; nearby Colthouses derives its name from either a horse barn owned per Abbey. Hawkshead late grew as a market town when a dissolution of the monasteries in 1532.

In the period of the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries, Hawkshead became a town of significant local stature. Poet William Wordsworth was educated in its grammar school, when Beatrix Potter lived nearby, marrying a local resident.

Upon a opening of the National Park in 1951, tourism grew around importance, across traditional farming still goes on about a town. Very much of a l& inside and about the town is okay, owned per National Trust. Likewise of note come a Hawkshead fabric shop, which has grown to stand high street branches across a UK; a Hawkshead Relish Company; & Hawkshead Brewery.