Bed and Breakfast in Cumbria, England.

Bed and Breakfast in Cumbria, England.

Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass

Cumbria and the Lake District is situated just south of the Scottish Borders with Northumberland and Durham to the east and Yorkshire to the south.

Wordsworth and the Lake Land Poets immortalised the views of the Lake District. Each one of the lakes clustered around the rugged heights of the fells is different. From placid Buttermere to lively Windermere, the longest of Lakes and the largest in England, surrounded by forested peaks and ablaze with colour in the autumn.

You can walk these imposing fells, sail Coniston Water on a Victorian steam yacht, or take a rowing boat and relive the adventure of Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’.

Follow narrow roads edged with dry stone walls to pretty villages, like tiny Sawrey once home to Beatrix Potter, the children’s author whose life and favourite characters are cleverly animated at The World of Beatrix Potter Gallery in Hawkshead. Further to the north is Carlisle, once described as the finest Roman city in England, lying close to the Scottish border and for long centuries riven by battles and border skirmishes.

The Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered a great wall, three meters thick and six meters high, to be built right across England’s North Country to keep out Scotland’s unruly Celts. Much of Hadrian's Wall and forts, like Birdoswald built in AD122 and Housesteads, can be seen today if you follow the wall from Carlisle or from Newcastle lying on the opposite coast.

Cumbria has a myriad of historic houses and heritage sites to discover including Hutton-in-the-Forest (Penrith), Muncaster Castle (Ravenglass), Abbot Hall Art Gallery (Kendal), Blackwell (Bowness 0n Windermere), Wordsworth's House (Cockermouth) and Rydal Mount (Ambleside) to mention just a few.

Carlisle has a 900 year old castle plus an elegant 19th century covered market and the award winning Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery. Here you can not only discover 2,000 years of history but also whether you are descended from one of the lawless Border Reiver families.

Bed and Breakfast in Cumbria

Alston
Nent Hall Country House
Ambleside
Melrose Guesthouse
Bowness
Nagoya Country House
The Cranleigh
Bowness on Windermere
Elim House Bed & Breakfast
Invergarry Guest House
Bowness-on-Windermere
Elim House
Elim Lodge Guest House
Lonsdale House
Melbourne Guest House
Brisco
River Forge Bed and Breakfast
Carlisle
Cornerways Guest House
Ireby
High Houses
Kendal
Sonata Guest House
Kendall
Sundial Guest House
Keswick
Brookfield Bed & Breakfast
Dolly Waggon Guest House
Howe Keld
Laurel Bank B & B
Leonard's Field House
Ravenstone Lodge
The Grange Country Guest House
Kingstown
The Angus Hotel
Lake Side
Knoll Country House
Mungrisdale
Lane Head Farm Country Guest House
Penrith
Crosby Bed and Breakfast
Norcroft Guest House

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