Photos of the area


Around Limefitt Park - Near Jenkins CragAround Limefitt Park - WIndermere with rainbowAround Limefitt Park - View from Wansfell PikeAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck GardenAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck GardenAround Limefitt Park - UllswaterAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchyardAround Limefitt Park - TownendDSCF1561Around Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchAround Limefitt Park - Cattle on the fellsAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck TongueAround Limefitt Park - View from WansfellAround Limefitt Park - View from Ill bellAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck ChurchyardAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck TongueAround Limefitt Park - WindermereAround Limefitt Park - UllswaterAround Limefitt Park - Limefiit from aboveAround Limefitt Park - Troutbeck Churchyard

The White Ladies of Troutbeck

There is a local legend that many years ago  there were two twins whose husbands both went missing on the same night when their ship out of Maryport foundered in a storm. They wandered each day up from Troutbeck to the top of the Kirkstone Pass in the hope of  seeing their menfolk returning and [...]

How's this for a restaurant view?

We went to the Mortal Man last night for a family dinner. For a change we sat in the restaurant rather than the bar and we enjoyed this view from the table.

View from The Mortal Man Restaurant

Stunning!

August availability in our brand new lodge - Troutbeck View

I’ve been a bit quiet of late as we’ve been away on holiday and as soon as we got back we had to get into preparing our new Troutbeck lodge – Troutbeck View. We’ve been putting our backs into it all week and we now have my sister in law “road testing” the lodge to [...]

Falconry Display and Pony Trekking at Limefitt Park, Troutbeck

Today at 2 pm they are going to be flying hawks here at Limefitt Park in Troutbeck

You can see some of these beauties.

Falconry at Limefitt Park

Midnight

and my favourite, thomas the American Kestrel

Thomas

Oh yes – and there’s free pony trekking for the kids too!

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Foxgloves and Cobwebs

I took Suki round Ing Bridge yesterday for the first time for a while. Recently we’ve all been a bit pre-occupied with getting the new Lodge, Troutbeck View, up and running, so it was good to get out even though it was a bit overcast. The hedgerows seem to have erupted since I was [...]

How to take Better Photos in the Lake District

People do ask me sometimes “why do you bother with Twitter?”

There are several answers to this, but one of the most important is the way it helps me to meet other local people who are also involved in the tourism industry. One of these is Mark Elliott who runs “Better Photos” ( http://www.better-photos.co.uk/ )

Mark tweets [...]

An expedition to the source of the Troutbeck

Ok , so it’s not exactly the White Nile, but an expedition to see where the beck begins its journey had been on my list of walks to to do for some time now. I set of on Thursday morning bright and early armed with a rucksack full of wet/cold weather clothes, map, compass etc [...]

A stroll up to Orrest Head above Windermere

I’ve had an outstanding task for a few months now since I told www.walkingworld.com that I’d add a circular walk up from Troutbeck up to Orrest Head. This is a lovely gentle walk up tothe top of one of the lowest fells in the Lakes. At only just over 750 feet it hardly qualifies as [...]

Troutbeck in the snow – New Year 2009

It’s a bit fierce out there just now with sleet lashing the lodge. It’s amazing how the landscape changes. I love the shapes of the dry-stone walls marking out the characteristic lakeland sheep folds in the snow.

Troutbeck Valley in Snow

The Mortal Man in Troutbeck gets its sign back

The Mortal Man has now lost its “The Mortal Man Experience” sign – the brainchild of the last owner who seemed to be intent on trying to fill it with vodka and champagne cocktail slurping yuppies. That didn’t work did it ?

Now that it’s been turned back into  a grand Lake District pub again with [...]