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GREAT DAYS OUT LAKE DISTRICT & CUMBRIA’S CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS HISTORIC HOUSES, GARDENS, CASTLES, MUSEUMS, WORLD HERITAGE SITES www.cumbriaslivingheritage.co.uk
Welcome back Askham Hall Askham, Penrith
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We want you to enjoy our collection of cultural and askhamhall.co.uk
heritage attractions safely, to relax and feel at home.
HIGHLIGHTS
Our brochure and websites The Allium: Michelin star
are filled with inspiration restaurant with rooms.
and ideas for your days Gardens: 12 acres of
colourful terraces; 230ft
out to help you make the herbaceous borders;
most of your time in our formal lawns; kitchen
gardens; woodland;
wonderful county. Pop meadows and ponds.
this guide in your pocket Kitchen Garden Café:
and keep it to hand as you serving produce from the
garden; wood-fired pizza,
explore our living heritage. Blackwell - The Arts & Crafts house
homemade ice creams in
Founded on a family owned ‘living’ the summer; log burning
estate, Askham Hall is a rare Grade I stove winter.
listed Pele Tower and a multi award- Children’s Play Area:
Know before you go winning Lake District hideaway. swings, slides and
climbing frame.
This special place is deeply rooted in,
All our attraction’s website details are clearly listed Animal trails: friendly
and connected to, the land around goats, pigs, cows and
so you can check them for the most up-to-date it. It is the family’s pleasure to chickens.
information about opening times, special events and, welcome you and share 1000 years Come and stay:
in some cases, how to pre-book your visit. of their accumulated knowledge, 19 luxurious bedrooms.
their landscape, garden produce and
We recommend that you check details before you heritage with you for the time that
you call Askham Hall home. .
leave if you are travelling far. If the facility for pre-
booking is offered and you want to guarantee entry
where there are limited admissions, please do so.
Blackwell Bowness/Windermere
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Being prepared makes for a great day out. The Arts & Crafts house
blackwell.org.uk
HIGHLIGHTS
We’re Good To Go Exhibitions and events:
House of the Setting Sun.
In its 120th year, Blackwell
We may have been closed, celebrates the enduring
but we’ve all been busy! legacy of artistic
exchange between Britain
Our gardeners have been and Japan.
planting and pruning, our Contemporary Craft
maintenance teams have Shop: work from the
best contemporary craft
been painting, hammering Fall in love with a stunning Lake makers selected for their
and cleaning, and our chefs District historic house and a quality and beauty.
have been experimenting! Terrace café at Brantwood masterpiece of 20th century design. Tea Room: seasonal light
lunches and homemade
Filled with original decorative tempting treats.
We can assure you that you will recognise all your features, furniture and objects by Garden Terraces:
favourite places. The brownie’s are still on the menu leading Arts & Crafts designers, picture-perfect view
at Blackwell - The Arts & Crafts house, the 700 year artists and makers, enjoy the of Windermere and
Coniston Fells; outdoor
old cat is still on display at Keswick Museum and the tranquillity of each room and seating, country garden.
view from Brantwood terrace is still awesome. You discover Blackwell’s fascinating Dogs: welcome on Tea
may notice some changes - some extended opening history as a family home and wartime Room terrace.
times, lots of outdoor seating areas and welcoming school.
teams will make your visit safe and relaxed. With picture-perfect views, this
Grade I listed house is a place that
never fails to inspire.
2 3Brantwood Coniston
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Dalemain Mansion Dalemain, Penrith
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John Ruskin’s Home
brantwood.org.uk
and Gardens dalemain.com
HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
Gardens: eight unique Gardens: Blue Himalayan
beautifully designed Poppies; Rose Walk;
gardens, natural Tudor Knot Garden;
meadows; woodland. Earth Sculpture and
Topiary Dragon.
Terrace Café: all food
cooked on site from fresh Tearoom: enjoy
ingredients; summer homemade food in an
BBQs; winter log stove. historic setting, served
inside or out.
The Treasury: an
Aladdin’s caves of Special Events: the
crystals and minerals. internationally renowned
World’s Original
One of the most beautifully situated Severn Gallery: selling, Dalemain offers a wonderful Marmalade Festival.
contemporary art combination of history and culture,
houses in the country; a vibrant exhibitions.
set in a World Heritage landscape. Shopping: gifts and
centre for the arts, a historic house Jetty: arrive by Steam antiques; plants;
and a relaxing retreat for the mind. Yacht Gondola or Home to the Hasells for eleven Marmalade!
Coniston Launch. Dalemain Loop: 5 miles,
Filled with many fine paintings and generations, the Mansion boasts a
Dogs: welcome on a lead through historic parkland
beautiful furniture, the house retains fine mixture of Mediaeval, Tudor & and the Ullswater Valley.
in gardens and café.
the character of its famous resident. Georgian architecture.
Come and stay: in The Dogs: on a lead allowed
Lodge, the Coachman’s The Plantsman’s Gardens encompass outside the café area.
Set amid 250 acres of gardens and Quarter’s or The Eyrie. 5 acres of richly planted borders
woodland overlooking Coniston with intriguing and unusual
Water you can take in the mountain combinations of flowers and shrubs
views from the house, café and
Small Visitor Attraction
to enjoy and be inspired by.
of the Year
garden trails.
Brockhole Windermere
Map Ref 4 Holker Hall Cark-in-Cartmel
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LDNP Visitor Centre on Windermere
brockhole.co.uk and Gardens holker.co.uk
HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
Gardens: created by Gardens: Holker lime is
Thomas Mawson. designated one of The
Tree Council’s 50 Great
Mawson’s Kitchen British Trees.
Garden: back into
production with the help Courtyard Cafe: serving
of HLF funding. seasonal menus using
estate and local produce.
The Gaddum: serves
lunches and classic Special Events: food
afternoon teas in an Arts and seasonal markets
& Crafts setting. including the hot hot hot
Chilli Festival!
A beautiful lakeside Arts & Crafts Brockhole Café: The Holker Estate is the much loved
Cumbrian cooking at Ilex Bar & Brasserie:
villa set in extensive grounds on the its best; outside table home of the Cavendish family; each offering guests a sense of
shores of Windermere. service; terrace with generation leaving its impressions, occasion as well as being
spectacular views. either by planning and altering the able to hire for your own
Designed by architect Dan Gibson special occasions.
Shopping: local produce; landscape or by changing the house
as a holiday home for silk merchant maps and guide books; Shop: a unique Aladdin’s
by adding, re-facing, embellishing or
William Gaddum and his wife Edith outdoor clothing. cave of ideas and
even rebuilding (after a fire in 1871). inspiration, and delicious
(née) Potter, cousin to Beatrix Potter. Dogs: welcome in food.
Brockhole is one of the lesser known gardens and café. The 23 acres of immaculately kept Dogs: welcome in
Arts & Crafts treasures of Cumbria, Story of the Lake District gardens have evolved over hundreds gardens and courtyard.
but one you should certainly put on Exhibition: learn how it
was formed; how people of years. Each owner adding new
your ‘Lake District historic houses have sculpted it ever features and planting, to create a
and gardens’ must visit list - if only since; and why it’s now a garden rich in heritage, character
for The Gaddum! World Heritage Site.
and beauty yet always evolving.
4 5Be inspired
Cumbria boasts England’s
deepest lake, its highest 7
mountain, 150 miles of coastline
and a good stretch of the
73 miles of Hadrian’s wall.
If you’re seeking inspiration,
you’re in the right place, in a
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landscape that has inspired 8 1
poets, painters and wordsmiths.
If it’s a stroll or a hike you desire
then many have mapped the
way. And, if it’s our stories you
seek then here they are...
1 Askham Hall
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2 Blackwell - The Arts 12
& Crafts house
3 Brantwood
4 Brockhole on Windermere
5 Dalemain Mansion
and Historic Gardens 4
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6 Holker Hall & Gardens
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7 Hutton-in-the-Forest
8 Keswick Museum
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9 Levens Hall, Gardens & Kitchen
10 Mirehouse & Gardens
11 Muncaster Castle, Gardens
and Hawk and Owl Centre
12 Rydal Mount 6
13 Wordsworth Grasmere
Getting about Bus services: stagecoachbus.com
By boat: windermere-lakecruises.co.uk,
Traveling around this
ullswater-steamers.co.uk, conistonlaunch.co.uk,
beautiful county can be as
nationaltrust.org.uk/steam-yacht-gondola
delightful as arriving. We
have bus, train and boat Private minibus tours: mountain-goat.com
services taking you through Heritage railways: lakesiderailway.co.uk,
some of our most beautiful ravenglass-railway.co.uk
landscapes and villages.
Car parks: lakedistrict.gov.uk/visiting/car-park-status
6 7Hutton-in-the-Forest Penrith
Map Ref 7 Levens Hall, Levens, Nr Kendal
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hutton-in-the-forest.co.uk Gardens & Kitchen levenshall.co.uk
HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
Gardens: Tulips and lilies, Gardens: the world’s
herbaceous borders, oldest topiary trees.
roses and fruit trees are Levens Kitchen: a
a mass of colour and seasonally inspired menu
interest throughout the with a strong focus on
summer. fresh local produce,
Cloisters Tearoom: enjoy much sourced from the
delicious homemade Estate. Special events
food and picnics, served and offers.
inside and out. Deer Park: a gently
Annual events: Plant and undulating 3 mile circular
Food Fair, Classic Cars in A fascinating and beautiful walk along the River
Lord and Lady Inglewood’s ancient Kent.
the Park, The Wanasee Elizabethan mansion, home to the
house in the medieval Forest of Music Festival and Bagot family. The Hall contains fine Shopping: an eclectic
Inglewood was originally built as Potfest in the Park. oak panelling, ornate plasterwork, gift shop; garden plant
a stronghold against the Scots. Cordova leather wall coverings, sales
Interiors: original William
The house has evolved into an Morris wallpapers; collections of period furniture, For Children: play area,
architectural puzzle with each the magnificent paintings and clocks, and the earliest willow labyrinth and
Cupid Staircase; an quizzes.
generation leaving its mark both examples of English patchwork.
eclectic collection of Dogs: Allowed on leads
inside and outside. contemporary ceramics. Dating from the 1690s, this 10-acre in deer park and café
The extensive gardens with topiary garden includes the world famous terrace.
Dogs: are welcome.
and terraces, a wild flower meadow topiary gardens, spectacular
and lake, lead round to the Walled herbaceous borders, giant beech
Garden which is now the main hedges and an ever-changing array of
flower garden. over 30,000 bedding plants.
Keswick Museum Keswick
Map Ref 8 Mirehouse and Keswick
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keswickmuseum.org.uk Gardens mirehouse.com
HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
We are at the start of Playgrounds: woodland
the Keswick to Threlkeld play areas; adventurous
Railway Trail and next for the older children,
to Fitz Park: riverside fanciful for the younger
walks; open space and ones.
children’s play area.
Estate Walks: poetry
Café West: seating walks, lakeside walks and
extends onto the terrace woodland walks with
next to the park. nature notes for families.
Displays: discover how The Old Saw Mill Cafe:
the landscape was with views down to
formed and how it has Mirehouse is a “Manor from Heaven” Bassenthwaite Lake the
Keswick Museum’s main galleries influenced industry, according to Melvyn Bragg. Set cafe is always popular
have been completely redesigned tourism and artists. in stunning landscape between with walkers, cyclists,
and are now bright open spaces Special exhibitions: mountainside and Bassenthwaite
bird-watchers and
with plenty of room to enjoy the visitors to Mirehouse.
include Keswick’s railway Lake, the gardens include a tranquil
displays and the views. and Canon Rawnsley Music: live piano music
(one of the founders of walled garden planted for bees, a welcomes visitors into
New displays and thematic zones the National Trust). terraced Poetry Walk and woodland the house on open days.
allow them to share some of Shop: items reflect the playgrounds. Dogs: welcome on leads
20,000 objects in their collection, nature of the collection. on your walks around the
The house has a wealth of unique estate.
all reflecting life in the Keswick Family activities: trails, literary connections - Tennyson,
area and telling the many stories explorer packs and
activities. Southey and Thomas Carlyle.
that have put Keswick firmly on the
map and at the heart of a World Visitors enjoy a relaxed welcome to
Heritage Site. this living family home and estate.
8 9Muncaster Castle Ravenglass
Map Ref 11 Wordsworth Townend, Grasmere
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Gardens and Hawk & Owl Centre
muncaster.co.uk Grasmere wordsworth.org.uk
HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
Hawk & Owl Centre: flies Dove Cottage:
falcons, hawks, eagles, experience the sights,
owls, herons & vultures sounds and smells
daily. that bring to life the
Wordsworth’s bustling
Special Events: Seasonal family home from over
indoor and outdoor 200 years ago.
events including an
amazing Halloween week! Museum: Wordsworth’s
Sino-Himalayan Gardens: remarkable story is
Enjoy our rhododendrons told through a unique
and have an adventure. collection of original
Dominating the Lake District coast letters, objects and
where the mountains tumble into Other Facilities: The Discover William Wordsworth’s manuscripts.
Gateway Café and radical and creative life story and
the sea and bursting with treasures Stables Café; play areas: Garden-Orchard:
and tales, haunted Muncaster oozes Enchanted Trail, swings & be inspired by his words in the very ‘The loveliest spot that
slides’, the MeadowVole place they were written. man hath ever found.’
history from every rough stone
Maze; The Bird Box & Viewing Platform:
which fashion the castle walls. John Carriage House gift shops; Step into Dove Cottage and be enjoy the beautiful
Ruskin described the stunning views The new EcoBarn. transported back to a period of views of Grasmere Vale.
of England’s highest mountain as Dogs: welcome on a ‘plain living and high thinking’.
lead in the gardens. Café: on the popular
“Heaven’s Gate”. Still nurtured by the coffin walking route;
family who have inhabited Muncaster Come and stay: William and his sister Dorothy open to visitors, walkers
for over 800 years, the surrounding accommodation and dogs.
available. Wordsworth’s remarkable story is
gardens are wild and breathtaking, told through a unique collection
teeming with wildlife and exotic of their original works in the newly
plants from around the world. opened Museum.
Rydal Mount Rydal
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Group visits
rydalmount.co.uk
HIGHLIGHTS Our historic houses,
Gardens: slightly wild, heritage gardens, homely
the gardens give an
insight into Wordsworth museums - even a haunted
the passionate gardener. castle - have lots to keep
Tearoom: located in your group absorbed,
what was originally
the saddlery over the whether for a brief visit or
coach house, we serve a a full day. Holker Hall and Gardens
selection of homemade
cakes and drinks.
We have fascinating special interest tours on all sorts
Guided Tours: exclusive of subjects - from ghosts to gardening, from poetry
Home to the poet William tours of the House and
Wordsworth from 1813 until his death Gardens are available to to pottery. Whatever your group’s interest, you’ll find
pre-book. a visit to suit.
in 1850 aged 80 and to his sister
Dorothy, author of the Grasmere Afternoon Cream
Teas: in Wordsworth’s Exploring new places, even just admiring the views,
journals, until her death in 1855. dining room can be pre-
arranged. builds up an appetite and we can satisfy them too
Now owned by Wordsworth’s direct
descendants the house contains Dogs: welcome on leads - afternoon tea at William Wordsworth’s table, a
many of Wordsworth’s personal in gardens and tearoom luxurious Michelin starred treat or simple fare with
courtyard.
belongings. These offer a unique stunning views - it’s all on the menu.
perspective on William Wordsworth
Speak to our members directly about arranging your
as a family man, and gives a sense
of who he was in the latter part of
next group visit.
his life.
10 11Wherever you are now, there’s somewhere close
to visit - with all you need for a great day out.
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