Lake District guest houses with traditional bed and breakfast (B&B)
The immensely popular Lake District guest houses offering bed and breakfast (B&B) have a well-deserved reputation. Ever since the Lake District became a magnet for travellers and tourists the first choice for holiday accommodation has been the traditional guest house offering a warm bed for the weary traveller and a hearty breakfast the following morning. Guest houses and bed and breakfast establishments far outnumber hotels in the Lake District generally. In one recent survey of visitors to the Lake District, over 115,000 visitors chose to stay in guest houses offering bed and breakfast, compared with only 35,000 staying in local hotels. One of the reasons for this is that guest houses in the Lake District tend to be small family-run businesses with a genuine local hospitality that cannot be found elsewhere.
Click below to see our range of Lake District guest houses in the following areas:
To pinpoint the location of a guest house in the Lake District, see our page with a navigable map of the Lake District.
When contacting one of the Lake District guest houses, please mention that you saw them listed at www.lakesguesthouses.co.uk.
The Lake District's first Romantic guests
Today's visitors enjoying bed and breakfast in one of the Lake District's guest houses follow in the footsteps of the great pioneers, one of whom was John Dalton (1709-1763). Born in Cockermouth, he was one of the first to describe in suitably poetic terms the sublime grandeur of the Lake District's "stupendous crags and impending woods". John Brown - a similarly Romantic contemporary of Dalton - considered it not an idle amusement but "a religious act" to pay an annual visit to the Lake District. His Letter describing the Vale and Lake of Keswick (1767) testifies to the powerful impression made on him by the "craggy and broken steeps" of the Lake District fells, offset by the "verdant isles of Derwentwater". When Thomas Gray visited the Lake District two years later and he was similarly enraptured by what he referred to as "the vale of Elysium in all its verdure". In addition to the sublime scenery, Gray was impressed by the hospitality of the locals. We are sure that you, too, will be warmed by the hospitality of your hosts in one of theLake District guest houses with its traditional bed and breakfast.