A bed and breakfast on Main Street in the middle of Hawkshead, in the village where all the parking is at the edge and the streets themselves are closed to cars. Its own site describes the house plainly as a dog friendly B and B. That is the whole of the published policy, so ring before booking to settle numbers, rooms, any charge and whether the dog can come down to breakfast. Grizedale Forest is two miles south and Latterbarrow rises straight out of the back of the village.
These are the parts only the business can add. We check the dog policy and stamp the date — photos, prices and their own words are theirs to put in, and this listing is waiting for them.
The rooms that take dogs, and where they sleep.
Can the dog actually sleep here, and what does it cost.
What a night actually costs, so nobody has to ring to find out.
How many dog-friendly rooms, whether they are ground floor, where the dog sleeps.
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The high point of Grizedale Forest at 314m, and the one summit in the central Lakes you can reach entirely on forest track and waymarked path with no sheep on it. From the visitor centre the route climbs west on the Silurian Way, then turns up a stony path through the plantation to a bare rock top with the Coniston fells laid out west and Windermere east. Forestry England's own dog code asks only that dogs stay close and in sight and that you use a lead if the dog does not always come back. The return drops north-east through the sculpture trail ground back to the centre.
Eight thousand acres of forest between Coniston Water and Windermere, threaded with waymarked trails, sculpture and easy-access paths from the visitor centre. Dogs are allowed on the trails and there is a cafe and shop at the centre; the forest is worked, so expect timber lorries on the roads.
Four and a half miles and a little over two hours, 220 metres of climb: out of Hawkshead by field paths and forest track to the stone obelisk on Latterbarrow, which gives a better view of the Langdale Pikes than anything twice its height. It starts at the main Hawkshead car park at the edge of the village, paid, about 200 spaces and the one Lakeland car park that is genuinely large enough for a busy Saturday. The forest section is enclosed and good for off the lead, the summit is open access ground grazed by sheep so leads there, and there is no water on the hill - the becks on the Hawkshead side are the last chance for a drink.
Nobody has written one for The Old School House. If you have been with the dog, you would be the first — and the first review is the one everybody reads.
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