This Lake District website has more information on the other towns not mentioned here such as Elterwater, Corniston or Ambleside. What's real helpful is that it gives info and email contacts of hotels and B&Bs. Well worth a visit.
If there is to be an official guide to travel in UK, this must be it! Here’s presenting the British Tourist Authority….
Maps are available in Open World Internet although they aren't too detailed at all.
However, do not expect all to be as Wordsworth saw it nearly 2 centuries ago. Instead, expect to jostle with hordes of tourists that swamp Lake District every summer (i.e. between May and October) especially on weekends and at busier tourist spots like Windermere and Keswick. But of course, if you'd rented a car, less poplulated towns could conveniently be reached.
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
- That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
- When all at once I saw a crowd,
- A host, of golden daffodils;
- Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
- Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
- Continuous as the stars that shine
- And twinkle on the milky way,
- They stretched in never-ending line
- Along the margin of a bay:
- Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
- Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
- The waves beside them danced; but they
- Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
- A poet could not but be gay,
- In such a jocund company:
- I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
- What wealth the show to me had brought:
- For oft when on my couch I lie
- In vacant or in pensive mood,
- They flash upon that inward eye
- Which is the bliss of solitude
- And then my heart with pleasure fills
- And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)