The Snug Keswick guidebook
Neighbourhoods
The star attractions of the area around Keswick are of course the Skiddaw Mountains and beautiful Derwentwater. Sports enthusiasts should plan their holiday for the month of May to take part in the Keswick Mountain Festival. If you are not a climber, you can enjoy the public parks, swimming pools and gardens of Keswick. For evening entertainment try the Theatre by the Lake or the cinema. Keswick has a superb choice of eateries that cater to all tastes.
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Keswick
The star attractions of the area around Keswick are of course the Skiddaw Mountains and beautiful Derwentwater. Sports enthusiasts should plan their holiday for the month of May to take part in the Keswick Mountain Festival. If you are not a climber, you can enjoy the public parks, swimming pools and gardens of Keswick. For evening entertainment try the Theatre by the Lake or the cinema. Keswick has a superb choice of eateries that cater to all tastes.
Food scene
We think probadly the best little bar restaurant in keswick
Situated in Keswick’s iconic Market Square, The Round sits on the footsteps of the Moot Hall. This is hallowed turf. This is where Billy Bland, Kilian Jornet and 2,000 other bold souls have started, and finished, The Bob Graham Round. A mere 42 peaks and 28,000 feet of ascent, in less than 24 hours.
Yet whilst we toast such a feat, we believe any Round deserves celebrating; however hard. Finished the Bob Graham Round? Welcome hero! Been round Derwent Water? Well played, what are you drinking? Looped round the Keswick shops? Come in for a break, and get some food!
To celebrate Lake District adventuring we make great tasting burgers, using local ingredients, home-made sauces and inventive twists on classic combinations. Our cocktails are crafted with love and we have a wide enough selection to suit all tastes. Failing that, our beers, wines and soft drinks should have you covered.
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The Round
21 Main StWe think probadly the best little bar restaurant in keswick
Situated in Keswick’s iconic Market Square, The Round sits on the footsteps of the Moot Hall. This is hallowed turf. This is where Billy Bland, Kilian Jornet and 2,000 other bold souls have started, and finished, The Bob Graham Round. A mere 42 peaks and 28,000 feet of ascent, in less than 24 hours.
Yet whilst we toast such a feat, we believe any Round deserves celebrating; however hard. Finished the Bob Graham Round? Welcome hero! Been round Derwent Water? Well played, what are you drinking? Looped round the Keswick shops? Come in for a break, and get some food!
To celebrate Lake District adventuring we make great tasting burgers, using local ingredients, home-made sauces and inventive twists on classic combinations. Our cocktails are crafted with love and we have a wide enough selection to suit all tastes. Failing that, our beers, wines and soft drinks should have you covered.
We like this little cafe restaurant just around the corner from the SNug in the main square Cozy, rustic interiors with modern vibes & a menu focused on international café fare & drinks
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Merienda
10 Main StWe like this little cafe restaurant just around the corner from the SNug in the main square Cozy, rustic interiors with modern vibes & a menu focused on international café fare & drinks
Situated in Lingholm Estate just across Derwent Water , accessed either via walking , driving or boat its a must when we are in keswick
The Lingholm Kitchen and Walled Garden was re-built in 2016 to offer a unique customer experience in a country estate setting. Located on the western shore of Derwentwater in the heart of the beautiful Lake District, our spacious café is open every day, serving delicious homemade food and award winning coffee. Whether you are after a heart breakfast to set you up for your daily adventure, a tasty lunch or just a snack to recharge you, the Lingholm Kitchen provides something for every occasion.
The café has a stunning 100 foot long glass wall looking down onto the octagonal walled garden and up to Skiddaw. Within the garden is an outdoor gallery dedicated to the work of Beatrix Potter in the Derwentwater area.
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Lingholm Kitchen
Situated in Lingholm Estate just across Derwent Water , accessed either via walking , driving or boat its a must when we are in keswick
The Lingholm Kitchen and Walled Garden was re-built in 2016 to offer a unique customer experience in a country estate setting. Located on the western shore of Derwentwater in the heart of the beautiful Lake District, our spacious café is open every day, serving delicious homemade food and award winning coffee. Whether you are after a heart breakfast to set you up for your daily adventure, a tasty lunch or just a snack to recharge you, the Lingholm Kitchen provides something for every occasion.
The café has a stunning 100 foot long glass wall looking down onto the octagonal walled garden and up to Skiddaw. Within the garden is an outdoor gallery dedicated to the work of Beatrix Potter in the Derwentwater area.
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Tripadvisor
The Chalet is situated in the Lakeland village of Portinscale nestled on the shores of Derwentwater. A place where you can enjoy walks, hire boats and hop on the launches to and from Keswick.
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The Chalet Tearooms & Restaurant
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Tripadvisor
The Chalet is situated in the Lakeland village of Portinscale nestled on the shores of Derwentwater. A place where you can enjoy walks, hire boats and hop on the launches to and from Keswick.
Days Out
Just Wacky :) why not spend sometime walking with Alpacas and Lamas , what a hoot you will love it
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Alpacaly Ever After
Braithwaite FarmJust Wacky :) why not spend sometime walking with Alpacas and Lamas , what a hoot you will love it
The Keswick Launch Company’s wooden craft leave regularly (every half hour during summer) for a 50 minute boat trip round Derwentwater. Including the main boat landings at Keswick there are seven landing stages around the lake to enable people to get off, go for a walk, and pick up the launch at a later time. Very low water in the lake might, at times, cause some landing stages to be omitted from the schedule.
Guided evening cruises take place from mid May to mid September and include a glass of wine or soft drink. There are also rowing boats and motor boats available for hire.
Stop off points are : Ashness Gate, Lodore, High Brandelhow, Low Brandelhow, Hawes End and Nichol End.
At the main boat landings at Keswick there is a National Trust gift shop, and good public toilets.
There are also a very large number of voraciously greedy but quite well behaved ducks, geese and swans to feed on the shore at Keswick. Especially popular with children this is a nice way to spend a little time or to begin or finish a boat trip on Derwentwater. Feed for the ducks can be bought from the kiosk at the lakeside cafe.
2021 fares (day pass)
Family: £28.50
Adult: £11.50
Child: £5.90
The Keswick Launch Company, 29 Manor Park, Keswick Cumbria CA12 4AB. Tel: 017687 72263
Email: info@keswick-launch.co.uk
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Keswick Launch Ticket Office
The Keswick Launch Company’s wooden craft leave regularly (every half hour during summer) for a 50 minute boat trip round Derwentwater. Including the main boat landings at Keswick there are seven landing stages around the lake to enable people to get off, go for a walk, and pick up the launch at a later time. Very low water in the lake might, at times, cause some landing stages to be omitted from the schedule.
Guided evening cruises take place from mid May to mid September and include a glass of wine or soft drink. There are also rowing boats and motor boats available for hire.
Stop off points are : Ashness Gate, Lodore, High Brandelhow, Low Brandelhow, Hawes End and Nichol End.
At the main boat landings at Keswick there is a National Trust gift shop, and good public toilets.
There are also a very large number of voraciously greedy but quite well behaved ducks, geese and swans to feed on the shore at Keswick. Especially popular with children this is a nice way to spend a little time or to begin or finish a boat trip on Derwentwater. Feed for the ducks can be bought from the kiosk at the lakeside cafe.
2021 fares (day pass)
Family: £28.50
Adult: £11.50
Child: £5.90
The Keswick Launch Company, 29 Manor Park, Keswick Cumbria CA12 4AB. Tel: 017687 72263
Email: info@keswick-launch.co.uk
One of Lakeland’s most famous features, this 2000 ton stone, some 30 feet high and fifty feet across, apparently rests in a state of delicate balance. It was not carried into the area by ice but is a local rock that toppled into its present position This happened after the glacier that once almost filled Borrowdale retreated and no longer buttressed the steep side of the valley. This resulted in a large rock fall.
Other rocks that fell at the same time are now largely obscured by trees and soil but some of them can be seen on the painting by Grimshaw made at a time when the trees that once covered much of Borrowdale had been felled. The precise age of the rock fall cannot be determined but it must be after the ice started to retreat some eighteen thousand years ago.*
‘The Bowder Stone’ by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
Borrowdale, strewn with tumbled rocks, was once avoided by travellers or provoked near-terror in the few who ventured there. The Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw, most famous for his pictures of scenes lit by moonlight, must have visited it between 1863 and 1868, when he was painting the Lake District and collecting photographs of the region. These, and the Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the Leeds collections, inspired the meticulous realism and detail of this picture of Borrowdale’s largest rock.
It had been the idea of the founders of the National Trust that gifts to the nation of places of beauty or of historic interest would form fit memorials to those who had passed away. The president of the National Trust, Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, and sister of King Edward VII, wanted to make a gift in memory of the King, when he died in 1910. Grange Fell was purchased, which included the Bowder Stone, and a memorial stone to King Edward was placed on the fell (grid ref 90: NY 258167). Eight years earlier Princess Louise had performed the opening ceremony at Brandlehow Wood, the first Lake District’s first aquisition.
The Bowder Stone is a very popular site for rock climbers, bouldering (climbing without ropes) is practised, often with mattresses placed below the climber as the more athletic attempt the overhang, as is the Bowder stone crag nearby.
Getting here : It is a short level walk from the National Trust car park (SatNav CA12 5XA) on the Keswick to Borrowdale road, near Grange. The 78 Borrowdale bus from Keswick also stops near the start of the path. A ladder allows you to climb to the top of the Bowder Stone.
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Bowder Stone
One of Lakeland’s most famous features, this 2000 ton stone, some 30 feet high and fifty feet across, apparently rests in a state of delicate balance. It was not carried into the area by ice but is a local rock that toppled into its present position This happened after the glacier that once almost filled Borrowdale retreated and no longer buttressed the steep side of the valley. This resulted in a large rock fall.
Other rocks that fell at the same time are now largely obscured by trees and soil but some of them can be seen on the painting by Grimshaw made at a time when the trees that once covered much of Borrowdale had been felled. The precise age of the rock fall cannot be determined but it must be after the ice started to retreat some eighteen thousand years ago.*
‘The Bowder Stone’ by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
Borrowdale, strewn with tumbled rocks, was once avoided by travellers or provoked near-terror in the few who ventured there. The Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw, most famous for his pictures of scenes lit by moonlight, must have visited it between 1863 and 1868, when he was painting the Lake District and collecting photographs of the region. These, and the Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the Leeds collections, inspired the meticulous realism and detail of this picture of Borrowdale’s largest rock.
It had been the idea of the founders of the National Trust that gifts to the nation of places of beauty or of historic interest would form fit memorials to those who had passed away. The president of the National Trust, Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, and sister of King Edward VII, wanted to make a gift in memory of the King, when he died in 1910. Grange Fell was purchased, which included the Bowder Stone, and a memorial stone to King Edward was placed on the fell (grid ref 90: NY 258167). Eight years earlier Princess Louise had performed the opening ceremony at Brandlehow Wood, the first Lake District’s first aquisition.
The Bowder Stone is a very popular site for rock climbers, bouldering (climbing without ropes) is practised, often with mattresses placed below the climber as the more athletic attempt the overhang, as is the Bowder stone crag nearby.
Getting here : It is a short level walk from the National Trust car park (SatNav CA12 5XA) on the Keswick to Borrowdale road, near Grange. The 78 Borrowdale bus from Keswick also stops near the start of the path. A ladder allows you to climb to the top of the Bowder Stone.
Yew Tree Farm, Rosthwaite, Borrowdale, Cumbria
Situated just six and half miles south of Keswick in the awe inspiring Borrowdale Valley, Yew Tree Farm has much to offer. why not pop in for light refreshments at our Flock-In tearoom, where we also stock our delicious range of Herdwick meats – raised and prepared here on the farm.
Yew Tree Farm Guest House
Yew Tree Farm, Rosthwaite, Borrowdale, Cumbria
Situated just six and half miles south of Keswick in the awe inspiring Borrowdale Valley, Yew Tree Farm has much to offer. why not pop in for light refreshments at our Flock-In tearoom, where we also stock our delicious range of Herdwick meats – raised and prepared here on the farm.
Walk up to Ashness Bridge as part of the spectacular Walla Crag to Ashness Bridge or park in the car park which is just a stone's throw away (CA12 5UN). Whatever the season you are guaranteed a wonderful photo opportunity.
While you're there, why not head to nearby Surprise View where you can see how great ice sheets carved out this impressive landscape: you have an uninterrupted view across Derwent Water and onto the Solway and the distant shores of Scotland.
For the more adventurous, continue along the single track road to the hamlet of Watendlath, taking in the ancient Ash pollards along the way. Watendlath nestles high up (263m) beside a tranquil tarn, with a farmhouse café, and a National Trust bothy. There are also public toilets here, and packhorse trails which climb gradually up the slopes.
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Puente Ashness
Walk up to Ashness Bridge as part of the spectacular Walla Crag to Ashness Bridge or park in the car park which is just a stone's throw away (CA12 5UN). Whatever the season you are guaranteed a wonderful photo opportunity.
While you're there, why not head to nearby Surprise View where you can see how great ice sheets carved out this impressive landscape: you have an uninterrupted view across Derwent Water and onto the Solway and the distant shores of Scotland.
For the more adventurous, continue along the single track road to the hamlet of Watendlath, taking in the ancient Ash pollards along the way. Watendlath nestles high up (263m) beside a tranquil tarn, with a farmhouse café, and a National Trust bothy. There are also public toilets here, and packhorse trails which climb gradually up the slopes.
Rediscover true relaxation at the Lodore Falls Hotel & Spa. Dine on delicious menus, feel pampered by the friendly team. From lazy lakeside strolls to adventurous excursions
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Lodore Falls Hotel & Spa
Rediscover true relaxation at the Lodore Falls Hotel & Spa. Dine on delicious menus, feel pampered by the friendly team. From lazy lakeside strolls to adventurous excursions