Lake District Holiday Cottages

Lake District

For those of us who love the Lake District, well known for its natural beauty and wide variety of outdoor activities, it is a life long quest to publicise and educate all those who are interested in holidaying in such a wonderful part of the world.

Independent of the weather the Lake District can also help visitors to step back in time at one of South Lakeland's historic houses or fascinating museums, relax on a lake cruise or steam railway or follow in the footsteps of great literary characters like William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin who all lived in the Southern Lake District and whose homes you can visit.

Its most commonly recognised peaks of Scaw Fell and Helvelyn are only two of a vast number of climbers and hikers perfect routes. Many international climbing expeditions have started off in The Lake District as a training ground.

Children can come face to face with animals from around the world at two wildlife centres, an aquarium and a sheep and wool centre or enjoy a magical indoor recreation of Beatrix Potter's famous characters. The whole family can explore deep underground in a slate mine too.

If you are looking for a souvenir of your visit, there are working potteries, photographic, art and craft galleries, design studios and plenty of other shopping opportunities, including an outlet centre in Kendal.

For those who want to get active, there's a climbing wall, leisure centre and a high wire adventure experience in Grizedale Forest!

These are just a few ideas for great days out in South Lakeland.

A fantstic place to start your holiday if you are looking for Lake District Holiday Cottages.

New Cottages under design

We have decided to expand Mirefoot Cottages.

Using the existing cottages that were let on a long term basis, we have decided to employ an architect, Roger Haig, to redeisgn our old cottages and create some beautiful Lake Ditrict friendly cottages for our guests. Again these will only sleep two in each cottage, but will also take advantage of the beautiful scenery around Mirefoot, with views of the expansive garden area.

As usual we are concerned that the planning board may be awkward when it comes to altering, slightly, the external aspects of the buildings, but we are sure that Roger can win them over!

I write this whilst skiing in Canada in Whistler. What a fantastic place, well worth the journey time as the snow is excellent even at this time of year.

I shall keep you all updated with regard to the new cottages.