Step out of your luxury hotel near Lake Windermere to see the ice-carved valleys that inspired Wordsworth and Wainwright. Breathtaking views of Langdale Fells, Lakeland stone villages and boat trips across ethereal lakes are a short hike away with Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
Luxurious Lake Windermere
You’ll feel like Victorian aristocracy as you skim Windermere’s calm waters and glide beneath the dramatic Cumbrian Fells on your exclusive, chartered steamboat cruise. A copy of Wainwright’s The Outlying Fells of Lakeland will prepare you for a hike to Orrest Head summit while your private guide points out panoramas of Scafell Pike. Hover like an eagle as the sun sets over farmland and clusters of stone cottages as you sip champagne on a hot air balloon ride.
Explore around Lake Windermere
Pack your paintbrushes and interpret the rural landscapes that captivated Turner on a painting course in Grasmere. Scenes of 17th-century cottages and mists over Grasmere Lake are certain to get the artistic juices flowing. In Keswick, the Victorian tearooms serve light Cumbrian sultana cake, and the views of nearby Newlands Valley inspired Beatrix Potter’s stories. Pause for a glass of white wine and gingerbread in Wordsworth’s rustic library at Rydal Mount and Gardens, where springtime daffodils are immortalised in one of his best-known poems.
Where to stay on a luxury holiday near Lake Windermere
Bright azaleas and daffodil meadows glow in springtime in Victorian Holehird Gardens in Windermere. Explore nooks and crannies in Baillie Scott’s grand white Blackwell, an Arts and Crafts house that showcases William Morris’s leafy prints and textiles.
Stay in a luxury hotel near Lake Windermere with Small Luxury Hotels of the World and take high tea in Victorian tearooms between lakeside rambles. Roast squab pigeon is served at a Michelin-starred restaurant in a boutique Victorian hunting lodge in Windermere.