How do you like to spa? Surrounded by trees and water and birdsong? Overlooking a lake with a horizon of distant mountains?

Aside from magnificent fells, glittering lakes, craggy valleys and striking whitewashed villages, the Lake District’s awe-inspiring landscape is home to some of the UK’s best hotels. You don’t have to ...

This Edwardian mansion looks suitably imposing: creeper-covered stone façades, huge leaded windows, sandstone mouldings and a fancy two-storey bay. Even later extensions have been skilfully blended.

Plans to turn closure-bound Overwater Hall near Ireby into a main home or holiday let have been recommended for approval by park planners.

This handsome, atmospheric waterfront hotel in the Lake District, once one of the grandest Victorian homes in the country, is full of ornate wooden panelling and stained glass, surrounded by ...

The best Lake District hotels will manage to encapsulate all that is magnificent about the region in a stay, from local produce dressing your dinner plate to carefully designed interiors that reflect ...

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