1622:Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion; or, A chorographicall description of all the tracts, rivers, etc. (1622)
1727:Daniel Defoe's A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1727)
1747-1748:George Smith's A Journey up to Cross-Fell Mountain (1747-1748)
1747-1748:George Smith's A Journey to Caudbec Fells (1747-1748)
1747-1748:George Smith's An Account of a Survey of the Northwest Coast of England (1747-1748)
1755:John Dalton's A Descriptive Poem, Addressed to Two Ladies, etc. (1755)
1764:John Wesley's An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal (1764)
1767:John Brown's Description of the Lake and Vale at Keswick, etc. (1767)
1770:Arthur Young's Six Months' Tour Through the North of England, etc. (1770)
1771:Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Scotland. MDCCLXIX (1771)
1774:Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII (1774)
1775:Thomas Gray's Journal of A Visit to the Lake District in 1769 (1775)
1776:Richard Cumberland's Odes (1776)
1776:William Hutchinson's An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmorland and Cumberland (1776)
1778:Thomas West's A Guide to the Lakes: Dedicated to the Lovers of Landscape Studies, etc. (1778)
1780:William Cockin's Ode to the Genius of the Lakes. A Poem (1780)
1780:Richard Joseph Sullivan 's Observations Made During a Tour through Parts of England, etc. (1780)
1786:William Gilpin's Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, etc. (1786)
1787:James Clarke's A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (1787)
1788:Thomas Newte's A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785 (1788)
1788:Stebbing Shaw's A Tour in 1787, from London to the Western Highlands of Scotland (1788)
1792:Joseph Budworth's A Fortnight's Ramble to the Lakes in Wesmorland, Cumberland, etc. (1792)
1792:Adam Walker's Remarks Made in A Tour from London to the Lakes, etc. (1792)
1795:Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)'s A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, etc. (1795)
1795:Henry Skrine's Three Successive Tours in the North of England, etc. (1795)
1798:James Plumptre's The Lakers: A Comic Opera in Three Acts (1798)
1800:John Housman's A Topographical Description of Cumberland, Westmoreland, etc. (1800)
1804:James Denholm's A tour to the principal Scotch and English Lakes (1804)
1804:Anon.-T. Ostell (pub.)'s Observations, Chiefly Lithological, Made in a Five Weeks' Tour (1804)
1804:Thomas Thornton's A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England, etc. (1804)
1804:Priscilla Wakefield's A Family Tour through the British Empire (1804)
1805:Joseph Mawman's An Excursion to the Highlands of Scotland and the English Lakes (1805)
1805:Anon.-Richard Phillips (pub.)'s Gleanings of a Wanderer, in Various Parts of England, Scotland, etc. (1805)
1807:Robert Southey's Letters from England, by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella (1807)
1812:William Combe's The tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1812)
1813:Duke of Rutland [John Henry Manners]'s Journal of a Tour to the Northern Parts of Great Britain (1796) (1813)
1816:Samuel Heinrich Spiker's Travels through England, Wales & Scotland in the Year 1816 (1816)
1819:Catherine Hutton's Oakwood Hall, a novel, including a description of the Lakes, etc. (1819)
1819:John Robinson's A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (1819)
1820:William Wordsworth's The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets (1820)
1822:William Wordsworth's A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England (1822)
1823:Jonathan Otley's A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the Mountains in their, etc. (1823)
1824:Thomas Wilkinson's Tours to the British Mountains, with the Descriptive Poems of Lowther (1824)
1827:Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter's Letters from Europe Comprising the Journal of a Tour through, etc. (1827)
1827:Charles Cooke's The Tourist's and Traveller's Companion to the Lakes, etc. (1827)
1829:Edward Baines's A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, etc. (1829)
1830:Samuel Leigh (pub.)'s Leigh's Guide to the Lakes and Mountains of Cumberland, etc. (1830)
1832:John Bree's Saint Herbert's Isle: A Legendary Poem: In Five Cantos (1832)
1833-1834:John Robinson's Views of the Lakes in the North of England, from Original Paintings, etc. (1833-1834)
1835:William Wordsworth's Guide through the District of the Lakes (1835)
1844:James Thorne's Rambles by Rivers (1844)
1846:Charles Mackay's The Scenery and Poetry of the English Lakes. A Summer Ramble. (1846)
1849:Alexander Craig Gibson's The Old Man; or Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone (1849)
1852:Anon.-John Garnett (pub.)'s Keswick and its Neighbourhood: A Hand-book for the Use of Visitors (1852)
1852:James Freeman Clarke's Eleven Weeks in Europe; and What May Be Seen in that Time (1852)
1853:A. and C. Black (pub.)'s Black's Shilling Guide to the English Lakes (1853)
1855:Harriet Martineau's A Complete Guide to the English Lakes (1855)
1859:Anon.-Nelson (pub.)'s The English Lakes (1859)
1860:Edwin Waugh's Over Sands to the Lakes (1860)
1861:Harriet Martineau's The Lights of the English Lakes (1861)
1861:Edwin Waugh's Rambles in the Lake Country and its Borders (1861)
1871 and 1941:Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Notebooks (1871 and 1941)
1875:William Dickinson's Cumbriana: or Fragments of Cumbrian Life (1875)
1881:Henry Frith's Wanderings in Wordsworthshire (1881)
1883:John Keats's Letters to Tom and George Keats (1883)
1884:John Burroughs's In Wordsworth's Country (1884)
1884:Anon.-Charles Dickens, Jr., ed.'s The Climbs of the English Lake District (1884)
1888:Celia Fiennes's Through England on a Side-Saddle (1888)
1889:W. G. Collingwood's Coniston Tales (1889)
1890:Frederick Amadeus Malleson's Holiday Studies of Wordsworth by Rivers, Woods and Alps (1890)
1892:Samuel Barber's Beneath Helvellyn's Shade. Notes and Sketches in the Valley of, etc. (1892)
1893:Herbert Rix's Down the Duddon with Wordsworth (1893)
1899:Ellis Yarnall's Walks and Visits in Wordsworth's Country (1899)
1900:M. J. B. Baddeley's Black's Shilling Guide to the English Lakes (1900)
1904:Lt. Hammond's A Short Survey of 26 Counties (1904)
1939 and 1957:Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Circumcision of the Lakes (1939 and 1957)
1968:William Gell 's A Tour in the Lakes, 1797 (1968)
1969:John Ruskin's The Iteriad; or, Three Weeks Among the Lakes (1969)
1983:Richard Colt Hoare's The journeys of Sir Richard Colt Hoare through Wales and England (1983)
1983:William Wilberforce's Journey to the Lake District from Cambridge (1983)