Maggs Howe Bed & Breakfast

"A fantastic place to stay when walking in the beautiful Lake District"

£27 per person per night

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Maggs Howe, Kentmere, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 9JP | 01539 821689

Maggs Howe Bed and Breakfast is located in the Kentmere Valley. The central lakes with their numerous tourist attractions are busy and crowded nowadays, and are best explored from a quieter fringe valley like ours.

Maggs Howe Bed & Breakfast
Kentmere, Nr Kendal
Cumbria, LA8 9JP

Directions
From the M6. At junction 36, exit onto A590.Continue on A591 (signs for Kendal/A591/A6/Windermere. Go through 1 large roundabout and continue towards Windermere. Signs for Staveley will appear on the A591.

Come into the village of Staveley, turn for Kentmere (sign posted). Continue for 4 miles. As you come into Kentmere, the roads are very narrow and you will see the road forks with a sign saying Maggs Howe. Take the right fork (Lowfield Lane) up the hill. At the triangle, continue to the right up the hill. Maggs Howe is at the top.

We are 4 miles from Staveley where there are shops, pubs and restaurants as well as bus and rail services. The hustle and bustle of the market town of Kendal (8 miles) and of Lake Windermere (6.5 miles) are only 20 mins drive away.

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Walking

If you are here to explore Kentmere itself, then it’s a ramblers paradise – a beautiful, unspoilt, steep-sided dale with woods, fields, lanes and a scattering of Lakeland farms and dwellings. There is the Mere itself (with day fishing permits to be had in Staveley), the River Kent; a main road that peters out a mile above Maggs Howe, and of course the fells with their walks so favoured by Wainwright.

You’ll need six fine hours to enjoy the Kentmere Horseshoe with its magnificent peaks, the Yoke, Ill Bell, Frostwick, High Street, Harter Fell and Kentmere Pike. You can also cut across one of the passes into the adjacent valleys of Troutbeck, Patterdale and Longsleddale; or keep to the valley’s gentler slopes, and look for buzzards, wheatears and wildflowers along lanes to Kentmere Reservoir, Skeggles water or Williamson’s Monument.

We have a range of maps and guides to the local walks available.