Three Day Beatrix Potter Experience

Enjoy two nights stay at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel located close to Lake Windermere. This comfortable hotel, formerly owned by Beatrix Potter is set in 6 acres of mature gardens and offers superb accommodation and fine dinning in it's award winning restaurant. Views over the lake and to the fells are spectacular anytime of the year.

Your short break also includes the Beatrix Potter's Lakeland and Wordsworth Tour: A visit to Hilltop farm is the highlight of this tour but lovers of Beatrix Potter know that her world extended throughout the Lake District, from Sawrey, Hawkshead, Tarn Hows and Yewdale in the south to Derwentwater and Newlands in the north and the head of the Troutbeck Valley in the east.

The tour also visits location used in the making of the "Miss Potter" movie staring Rene Zellweger. Likewise William Wordsworth traveled extensively throughout the Lake District and this tour is especially designed to visit particular places that can be associated with the areas two most famous literary figures. All will be explained during this wonderful 14 lakes and tarns tour with stops for photographs and short walks.

Schedule Details Departs:

Seasonal
January 01 to October 31
Daily

Departure Point: Package begins with pick up from Windermere Railway Station, or Windermere accommodation Departure Time: 9:25am Return details: Tour concludes at original point of departure Hotel Pickup: Hotel pick up is available from most central Windermere hotels, you MUST call the supplier to advise your hotel details for pick up and to reconfirm your tour (contact details provided on voucher). If you do not call, you must make your own way to the departure point. Itinerary:

Day One: Arrival transfer to accommodation and free time
Day Two: Beatrix Potter's Lakeland and Wordsworth tour
Day Three: Free time and departure transfer from accommodation

Tour Highlights

• Beatrix Potter's Hilltop Farm - home of Peter Rabbit (40 minute stopover)
• Jeremy Fisher's Esthwaite Water
• Jemimah Puddleduck's village of Near Sawrey
• Squirrel Nutkin's Derwentwater
• Stunningly beautiful Tarn Hows
• Coniston Water - lake cruise
• Hawkshead Village and Wordsworth's Grammar School
• Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes"
• Aira Force Waterfall - the Lake District's most dramatic waterfall
• Castlerigg Stone Circle - the enigmatic ancient stone circle
• William Wordsworth's Dove Cottage
• Grasmere - stopover in village for lunch (own expense)

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