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We had lovely clear weather over Christmas and the New Year and had fun recreating some amazing film footage of climbing in Borrowdale from 1926.  Here are a couple of stills for comparison -  you can see the original 1926 film here: History, Wildlife and Landscape...

  The beautiful long summer days are an amazing time to be at Manesty. This is a view of the light northern night sky over Derwent  Water and Bass Lake. We still have some limited availability and we are able to offer a 10% discount in all our accommodation...

Happy New Year from a beautiful wintry scene at Manesty.  The snowmen made on Sunday 5th by grandchildren are still standing guard; the Lake is frozen but not enough for our usual New Year skating; we have not had the seriously low temperatures, just a few days...

Recently our wood was host to a wave of redstarts and fieldfares who joined the resident blackbirds and thrushes in devouring the rowan berries. They have since moved on to the yellow holly and the red holly is starting to look thin on the trees. It was a...

We are a bit late with this one, after the overload in the last few days. The picture was taken from Manesty looking north over the lake towards Skiddaw and Blencathra. We have been trying to see the aurora for a long time, but only recently realised that you have...

We have had lovely long sunny days with long grass, nights with the aurora and Borrowdale is in the news. The valley's woodlands which form England's 'largest temperate rain forest' have been declared a 'national nature reserve' and the closest section to us is in...

Spring is in full swing here at Manesty, the birds are singing, the grass is growing and we are looking forward to welcoming you all in the coming season. We hope we have finally seen the end of Covid-19 restrictions which we had to have in place for so long. We...

Last summer Morwenna from the National Trust carried out a bird and butterfly survey. We were very excited that she wanted to carry part of it out through Saltwell Park, our field which takes the footpath down to the lake. She saw lots of action and send us the...

Well it's been a long and busy year! We are finally catching our breath and are here to give you an update. Things have changed a lot over the course of the year and we are pleased to announce that we are finally able to return to our normal arrival and departure...

Following the Government's announcement in February 2022 we have reviewed our policies. Our priority is to continue to minimise risks for our guests, those who help us and ourselves while providing our guests with an enjoyable holiday. Below is a summary of how our...

Happy new year to you all! We had a very mild and somewhat damp Christmas and New Year, which was followed by some much colder and more seasonal weather. Sledging and snowman building however has only happened once back in November! We have walked up to snowline a...

After the Governments changes in July we have reviewed our policies. Our priority is to continue to minimise risks for our guests, those who help us and ourselves while providing our guests with an enjoyable holiday. Below is a summary of how our reviewed policies...