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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heading out to the country doesn’t mean you have to give up on your luxuries, and these Lake District hotels are more than happy ...

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 ...

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