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A hill station founded generations ago, temples centuries older, and the homes of local legends.

1899 Victorian-Gothic estate modelled on Buckingham Palace’s plan; guided tours on open days.

Jim Corbett’s childhood home, kept as he left it — trophies, letters, and first editions of Man-Eaters of Kumaon.

Neo-Gothic church of 1844 in a deodar grove, with memorials to the 1880 landslip victims.

Lakeside shakti peetha rebuilt after the 1880 landslip; the lake and the town both take its name.