“Wonderfully cosy and luxurious, the Edwardian house is set on 15 acres of woodland with panoramic views over Lake Windemere.”
The Lake District is the land of the Romantics, where the poetic surroundings inspired the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Follow in their footsteps with a Lake District travel guide, revealing scenic walking paths and the cosiest lakefront cottages to retreat to at the end of the day.
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“Wonderfully cosy and luxurious, the Edwardian house is set on 15 acres of woodland with panoramic views over Lake Windemere.”
From GBP 150.00
per room per night
“The charming, country-chic inn was frequented by Wordsworth in his day, offering poetic views and cosy rooms with fireplaces.”
From GBP 145.00
per room per night
"A small converted hunting lodge, now a luxury hotel with a spa, fine walks and fabulous lake views."
From GBP 270.00
per room per night
Tarns | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Lake Windermere
The mountain tarns, however, take one's understanding of stark beauty into a new realm altogether. Generally treeless and often rocky, they appear bare, grim, forbidding, yet strangely compulsive
Mosedale Horseshoe | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Wasdale
It was a view of little colour but marked contrasts, an abstract of snow and precipice, white and black, against a backdrop of the dark green forest and sunlit, bracken-brown slopes
Discovering the Missed Hills of your Youth | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Cumbrian fells
When I first discovered the Cumbrian fells, in my early teens, I soon became obsessed by peak-bagging. I would venture out under any conditions to add just one more hill to my growing list
Pier's Ghyll | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Cumbrian fells
The walls reached up for perhaps fifty metres to each side of me, yet were so close together that in places I could touch both simultaneously. Snow clung to small ledges, from which an occasional tree sprouted