Lakes is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.

[1] It covers the town of Ambleside, and the villages and hamlets of Clappersgate, Rydal, Grasmere, Troutbeck, Chapel Stile, Elterwater, Little Langdale and Waterhead.

Lakes CP incorporates within its boundaries the wards of Ambleside, the Langdales, Rydal & Loughrigg, Grasmere and Troutbeck.

It enters the parish from the south at the point where it crosses Trout Beck at Troutbeck Bridge village.

[6] It is the area covered by the Kelsick Foundation,[7] an organisation that helps locals with the costs of extra-curricular activities for children.