More about location

The Riverside bar, which is 272 yards from the cottage is part of the Scafell Hotel. It serves food with at least one veggie option. The nearest shop and public phone are roughly the same distance away. The 'Flockin' Tea Shop is 50 yds away and the 'Royal Oak' , which is next to the pub, serves tea, scones with rum butter for afternoon tea. Grange, about 1 ½ miles away, has two tea shops. Various hotels/pubs within a two miles radius serve meals to non-residents. Anglican and Methodist Churches in Grange. Trout fishing by permit at Watendlath. Keswick Golf Club , near Threlkeld. Leisure Centre at Lodore Hotel.

Keswick the nearest large town is approximately 6 miles away.

Leave your car behind and walk it, bus it or even boat it from Grange-in-Borrowdale.

Clare's Cottage boasts the most stunning views of the fells. On warm summer evenings , sit in the garden and soak up the magnificent atmosphere of the Lakeland Hills.

Views include High Spy, Castle Crag and Kings How.

Clare’s Cottage is situated in a spot that is a haven for fell walkers, runners and climbers. Whether you like long, short, easy or strenuous hikes there are no shortage of routes when you step out of Clare’s Cottage.

Great Gable, Scafell Pike, Glaramara and High Spy are just a few of the nearby mountains and fells you can conquer. Rosthwaite, as well as being on the Coast to Coast Route, is on the Cumbrian Way, indeed, Wainwright once wrote: “A Fell walker based in Rosthwaite is like a king with many thrones”.

Rosthwaite is also the setting for Hugh Walpole's novel "Rogue Herres"

The eagle can see the black precipitous flanks of the screes washed with rain and the dark purple hummocks of Borrowdale crags flash suddenly with gold……

Hugh Walpole.

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