Grasmere

Tea garden and boat hire. They blend their own fairly traded tea. Rowboat hire for 4 people £25.

Good choice of beers and food, mixed reviews on quality, service and value for money. Has rooms.

One of the first YHA hostels in England, now an independent hostel since 2011, owned and run by Taylor and Carolyn Nuttall who live on site. Thorney How is the small outcrop in the grounds of this Grade 2 listed old farmhouse. There are a number of small bedrooms as well as more traditional bunk rooms. The hostel can sleep up to 50 people if the bunk room dormitories are full. Coffee, tea, cakes and drinks are part a drop-in cafe. Also on offer eve meals and breakfasts if use of the self-catering kitchen is too much. Local beers abound including the regular draft beer as part of the hostel licence.

A 4 star hotel with onsite spa and restaurant.

Is an example of a fine traditionally built lakeland residence, which sleeps 10-12 and is 10 mins quiet walk from the centre of the village.

4-star accommodation, views over private gardens reaching out to the nearby fells.

Smart upscale hotel in a Victorian house with great dining. Open Feb-Dec, no children under 10.

Small supermarket.

Art gallery and shop established Alfred Heaton Cooper in 1905, and still run by his descendants.