The Herdwick Huts

Strap on your boots and get walking… for a waterfall, museum and Windermere ferry terminal, take off to Ambleside (40 minutes’ walk). Here, the stunning Stock Ghyll Force waterfall is 70 feet tall and down in the town, there are shops, restaurants, a cinema and the Armitt museum with a Beatrix Potter exhibition and other old bits and bobs from this area’s past life. In the other direction, Grasmere (50 minutes’ walk) will put you on track for more Wordsworth sites, as Wordsworth Grasmere (five minutes’ drive) was another of Wordsworth’s homes. When you’re done with your wanderings around the village itself, there are rowing boats and canoes available for hire to get out on the water. What other Lake District havens should you add into the throw? Well, there are several hot spots within driving distance of the site (when you’re ready to trade in your walking boots, that is), including the treetop courses, kayak tours and other outdoor activities at Brockhole on Windermere (10 minutes), steeper hikes up Scafell Pike (35 minutes) and The Old Man of Coniston (25 minutes) or the National Trust's Hill Top (25 minutes).