The Derwent Pencil Museum is one of over 200 attractions around the UK that Blue Peter badge holders can get into for free. To gain free entry, each child must have a Blue Peter badge, a valid ...

One of the Lake District's most popular visitor attractions is reopening today. The Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick was badly damaged during the storms in December 2015. Over the past 18 months ...

DERWENT PENCIL MUSEUM: The website boasts that this attraction is the “home of the world’s first pencil”. Also out on display at the museum in Keswick, Cumbria, are “secret” World War ...

Home to the first pencil in the world, Derwent Pencil Museum is one for arty kids. Guests enter via a replica graphite mine with exhibits including secret WWII map pencils and limited creations ...

A spy pencil made by Cumberland Pencil Factory, on the site of Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick, was valued at £400 on the Antiques Roadshow on Sunday (June 17). The World War Two pencil ...

The museum, which was established 28 years ago, explores the history of pencil making. Attached to the museum is the Derwent factory, which began manufacturing pencils in 1832.

The Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick has been fully refurbished, and had a special guest to celebrate their big day: ...