Inside the Lodge
Elterwater Lodge is a charming wooden holiday lodge comprising a living room, kitchen / dining area, bathroom and two bedrooms - one double room and one twin room. It has its own private garden and a large veranda, Wi-Fi, parking space for two cars and enjoys shared use of an indoor heated plunge pool, sauna, Jacuzzi and table tennis table in the nearby pool hall.
About Neaum Crag
Neaum Crag is a special place. Roughly two and a half miles west of Ambleside, at the entrance to Langdale, it is virtually central in the Lake District National Park. Well known as an area of outstanding natural beauty, the countryside is very popular with climbers and ramblers.
Set on a south facing hillside above Skelwith Bridge, Neaum Crag is a wooded estate of some eighteen acres in total. Neaum Crag house was the original main dwelling surrounded by woodland, with Coach House and kitchen garden. In the late 1800’s a man called Fleming who was a friend of Ruskin occupied the house. The house was extended at that time and developed to look much as it appears today. The area where the pool hall now stands was a kitchen garden complete with large sundial. Most of the mature native and specimen trees date from this period.
A public footpath runs from the Western end of the pool building down between the steeply pitched roof chalets to Skelwith Bridge, where there is a hotel & pub, slate galleries and a café, as well as a pleasant ambling path along the river up to Elterwater and the village. Up the hill from the pool hall, the public footpath continues to the top of the estate, up through the larch plantation, exiting the estate through a gate in the wall. Loughrigg Tarn and Loughrigg Fell can be seen to the right at this point. The woodland is protected by a tree preservation order and the bird life is well noted. Red Squirrels can be spotted, roe deer, and occasionally red deer wander at will through the grounds, though they are rarely seen in summer when the vegetation is high. Observe, admire or ignore as you will, but please do nothing that may alter or interfere. The old adage applies, “Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.”
Set on a south facing hillside above Skelwith Bridge, Neaum Crag is a wooded estate of some eighteen acres in total. Neaum Crag house was the original main dwelling surrounded by woodland, with Coach House and kitchen garden. In the late 1800’s a man called Fleming who was a friend of Ruskin occupied the house. The house was extended at that time and developed to look much as it appears today. The area where the pool hall now stands was a kitchen garden complete with large sundial. Most of the mature native and specimen trees date from this period.
A public footpath runs from the Western end of the pool building down between the steeply pitched roof chalets to Skelwith Bridge, where there is a hotel & pub, slate galleries and a café, as well as a pleasant ambling path along the river up to Elterwater and the village. Up the hill from the pool hall, the public footpath continues to the top of the estate, up through the larch plantation, exiting the estate through a gate in the wall. Loughrigg Tarn and Loughrigg Fell can be seen to the right at this point.
The woodland is protected by a tree preservation order and the bird life is well noted. Red Squirrels can be spotted, roe deer, and occasionally red deer wander at will through the grounds, though they are rarely seen in summer when the vegetation is high. Observe, admire or ignore as you will, but please do nothing that may alter or interfere. The old adage applies, “Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.”
