Category: Environment

National Tree Week

National Tree Week

While you’re enjoying your hotel stay in the Lake District or North Lancashire, have you ever thought of helping out with some tree planting? Celebrate National Tree Week with English Lakes Hotels National Tree Week, an initiative spearheaded by The Tree Council, is celebrated in the UK every year at the end of November. It’s a… Continue reading National Tree Week

5 Beautiful Pushchair and Wheelchair Accessible Walks in the Lake District

Our hotels in the Lake District and surrounding areas have hundreds of miles of public footpaths, tracks and trails and hopefully a growing desire to make access easier for those using wheelchairs, mobility scooters or parents with buggies. We all have a right to enjoy the countryside. Here are five short walks which are accessible to all. 

Lancaster House, New Manager Inspires a Green Future

Lancaster House welcomes Andy Lemm as General Manager. Andy has bags of vision for the future of the hotel, but he is also returning to a place that is a significant part of his past.  Lancaster House has always been a special place for me. It was my home for nearly two years and I… Continue reading Lancaster House, New Manager Inspires a Green Future

English Lakes and Nurture Lakeland caring for Cumbria

The environment is an essential part of life in the Lake District and like most popular areas; it needs constant care to maintain the beautiful surroundings. Freddie Tedstone, a student from the Wirral, has been challenged with the question ‘Who should care for the environment?’ The Lake District is renowned for its breath-taking scenery, including… Continue reading English Lakes and Nurture Lakeland caring for Cumbria

214 Wainwrights in One Year!

It seems like an eternity ago, I was stood in my kitchen, glass of Balvennie Doublewood in hand, staring at PM Burgess’s Tubular Fells, contemplating whether I could walk all 214 ‘Wainwrights’ in the calendar year of 2012. I wasn’t a complete novice to the Lakeland Fells, so I was under no illusion as to… Continue reading 214 Wainwrights in One Year!