Visiting
The houses of Beatrix Potter (Hill Top less than a mile away), Ruskin (Brantwood), Wordsworth (Dove Cottage) are nearby and don't forget that you are in the heart of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazon Country! The Beatrix Potter Gallery in Hawkshead village complements any visit to her National Trust home at Near Sawrey, less than one mile away, with a fascinating exhibition of original water colour illustrations. Blackwell, a house built in the Art and Crafts movement style (and tearoom) is a 3-minute journey from the Bowness side of the lake. Levens Hall with it's fine garden is also nearby.
You will be spoiled for choice for places to visit.
Being in the heart of the Southern Lakes, whichever direction you take, there are an abundance of fascinating places to visit, which are either within walking distance, cycling distance or less than 30 minutes by car.
We set out some suggestions:
- Ambleside, and Bridge House*
- Belle Isle
- Blackwell Arts and Crafts House
- Brantwood, former home of John Ruskin
- Bowness-on-Windermere
- Brockhole Visitor Centre
- Claife Heights, Near Sawrey
- Coniston
- Dove Cottage, former home of William Wordsworth
- Esthwaite Water and Trout Farm
- Grasmere
- Grizedale Forest Park, Visitor Centre and Go Ape!
- Hawkshead Village, and Beatrix Potter gallery showing originals of Beatrix Potter's drawings*
- Hill Top, Near Sawrey, former home of Beatrix Potter.* You will see where many of the illustrations in her books came from and Mr McGregor's garden!
- Hayes Garden World
- Lake Coniston and Steamboat Gondola
- Lake Windermere
- Tarn Hows, Near Sawrey
- Troutbeck
- Townend*
- Windermere
- Windermere Aquarium
- Windermere Steamboat Museum
- Wise Een Tarn
- World of Beatrix Potter
- Windermere Cruises
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Brantwood - Ruskin's home
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Hill Top - home of Beatrix Potter
*Free admission with your National Trust Membership Card
For those wanting to explore further afield other possibilities are:
- Barrow-in-Furness Dock Museum
- Kirby Lonsdale
- Kendal
- Holker Hall, Farm Shop and Lakeland Motor Museum
- Lancaster
- Morecombe Bay
- Sizergh Castle
Morning Room @ Sawrey Knotts
Far Sawrey, Hawkshead, Lake District, Cumbria LA22 OLG - England, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)15394 42435 24 hrs
Write: Lakeland Hideaways, The Square, Hawkshead LA22 0NZ
