Activities tagged with: Lake District

Blackwell is one of Britain’s finest Arts & Crafts historic houses from the turn of the last century and survives in a truly remarkable state of preservation retaining its original decorative features, including the rare and fragile hessian wall-hangings in the Dining Room.

Dalemain has been the home of the Hasell-McCosh for eleven generations. Here, visitors can discover and enjoy four centuries of history, 5 acres of celebrated gardens, historic parkland and home-made food served in the Mediaeval Hall Tearoom.

Magnificently situated only a short distance from Grange-over-Sands and the expanse of Morecambe Bay. Holker Hall is set in exceptionally beautiful countryside with gardens that merge into Parkland framed by the Lakeland Hills.

Hutton-in-the-Forest is an ancient and historic Cumbrian house which was at least two hundred and fifty years old.

Keswick Theatre by the Lake is a year-round professional producing and presenting theatre which provides a service through the performing arts to communities of, and visitors to, Cumbria.

Muncaster Castle is still a privately owned family home to the Pennington’s and three generations of the family still live in the Castle today.

The Silver Meadow wetland nature reserve is next door to The Pheasant and is a must walk for any visitor. This beautiful area is 7 hectares of wetland and once part of Bassenthwaite Lake, but now is home to a range of special wetland flora, fauna and wildlife.

Wordsworth House and Garden, birthplace of romantic poet William and his sister Dorothy, is one of the stars of a major new behind-the-scenes ITV series showing over the autumn and winter.