GREAT DAYS OUT LAKE DISTRICT & CUMBRIA’S CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS

HISTORIC HOUSES, GARDENS, CASTLES, MUSEUMS, WORLD HERITAGE SITES

www.cumbriaslivingheritage.co.uk Askham, Penrith Welcome back Askham Hall Map Ref 1

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 leave if you are travelling far. If the facility for pre- you call Askham Hall home. . booking is offered and you want to guarantee entry where there are limited admissions, please do so. Bowness/Windermere Blackwell Map Ref 2 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 of Windermere and artists and makers, enjoy the 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 3 Coniston Dalemain, Penrith Brantwood Map Ref 3 Dalemain Mansion Map Ref 5 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 houses in the country; a vibrant combination of history and culture, exhibitions. Shopping: gifts and centre for the arts, a historic house set in a World Heritage landscape. 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. Filled with many fine paintings and generations, the Mansion boasts a Dalemain Loop: 5 miles, through historic parkland Dogs: welcome on a lead fine mixture of Mediaeval, Tudor & beautiful furniture, the house retains in gardens and café. and the Ullswater Valley. 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 Small Visitor Attraction combinations of flowers and shrubs views from the house, café and of the Year to enjoy and be inspired by. garden trails. Windermere Cark-in-Cartmel Brockhole Map Ref 4 Holker Hall Map Ref 6 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; as a holiday home for silk merchant landscape or by changing the house maps and guide books; by adding, re-facing, embellishing or Shop: a unique Aladdin’s William Gaddum and his wife Edith outdoor clothing. cave of ideas and (née) Potter, cousin to Beatrix Potter. even rebuilding (after a fire in 1871). inspiration, and delicious 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 5 Be 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 10 5 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 13 2 Blackwell - The Arts 12 & Crafts house 3 Brantwood 4 Brockhole on Windermere 5 Dalemain Mansion and Historic Gardens 4 11 3 6 Holker Hall & Gardens 2 7 Hutton-in-the-Forest 8 Keswick Museum 9 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 7 Penrith Levens, Nr Kendal Hutton-in-the-Forest Map Ref 7 Levens Hall, Map Ref 9 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 A fascinating and beautiful walk along the River Lord and Lady Inglewood’s ancient Food Fair, Classic Cars in the Park, The Wanasee Elizabethan mansion, home to the Kent. 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. sales Interiors: original William Cordova leather wall coverings, 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 generation leaving its mark both Cupid Staircase; an quizzes. eclectic collection of examples of English patchwork. inside and outside. Dogs: Allowed on leads contemporary ceramics. Dating from the 1690s, this 10-acre in deer park and café terrace. The extensive gardens with topiary Dogs: are welcome. garden includes the world famous 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 Keswick Keswick Museum Map Ref 8 Mirehouse and Map Ref 10

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 Mirehouse is a “Manor from Heaven” with views down to Keswick Museum’s main galleries formed and how it has Bassenthwaite Lake the 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 bird-watchers and Special exhibitions: mountainside and Bassenthwaite visitors to Mirehouse. with plenty of room to enjoy the 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 9 Ravenglass Townend, Grasmere Muncaster Castle Map Ref 11 Wordsworth Map Ref 13 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 history from every rough stone slides’, the MeadowVole place they were written. man hath ever found.’ which fashion the castle walls. John Maze; The Bird Box & Viewing Platform: 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 Rydal Mount Map Ref 12 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. in 1850 aged 80 and to his sister a visit to suit. 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- builds up an appetite and we can satisfy them too Now owned by Wordsworth’s direct arranged. - afternoon tea at William Wordsworth’s table, a descendants the house contains Dogs: welcome on leads 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 11 Wherever you are now, there’s somewhere close to visit - with all you need for a great day out.

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