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Holiday Cottage Information Sheet
Cottage Name: Oak Apple Barn
Address: Skinner How Lane, Hawkshead, Cumbria LA22 0PL
Tel: n/a (owner 01344 624896 / 07970 659941)
Website: www.oakapplebarn.com
Email: mikethornton@ascotgbr.freeserve.co.uk
Check In: Sundays, after 3.00 pm. All linen provided, but please remember to bring personal towels
Check Out: Sundays, before 10.00 am
Parking Car: Max 2 cars; boat by prior arrangement
Directions by Road: Proceeding from Junction 36 of the M6 Motorway, follow the A591, (in Ings Village, just by the speed camera, you will pass a great pub, the Watermill, for a late lunch stop) through the outskirts of Windermere, following the signposts towards Ambleside. (By Windermere train station, you will pass Booths Supermarket, which is the biggest and best in the Lake District, if you need to stop to buy some food). Upon reaching Ambleside, turn left at the traffic lights at Waterhead, following the signs for Hawkshead and Coniston. At the Ambleside Rugby Club, turn left and continue over Rothay Bridge, proceed to Clappersgate, turning left onto the B5286, signposted Hawkshead. Drive through Outgate and before reaching Hawkshead village, turn right (just by some old buildings on your right) on the B5285, signposted Brantwood and Hawkshead Hill; then take the next (first) lane on your right. Continue up the lane for approximately 200 yards, with the property being situated on the left hand side. Go through the main gate into the farmyard.
Cottage Facilities: TV, CD player, iron and board, hair drier, heating, wood burning stove in lounge. No telephone.
Other Information: Pets by prior arrangement. No smoking.
Nearest Food Shop: Co-Op & Spar in Ambleside. Best supermarket is Booths in Windermere (cross by ferry, see below).
Nearest Chemist: Hawkshead
Nearest Newsagent: Hawkshead
Nearest Post Office: Hawkshead
Nearest Petrol: Ambleside & Coniston
Nearest Bank/ATM: Barclays and Natwest in Ambleside
Nearest Tourist
Information : Ambleside
Nearest Pubs: Hawkshead, Outgate
Shortcut To Windermere: There is a shortcut across Lake Windermere, by ferry. To reach the ferry (about 3 miles from Oak Apple Barn) drive past Hawkshead; turn left at the T-junction, follow the road straight to The Ferry. The ferry operates only in good weather, and costs £3 each way for vehicles. It leaves as soon as it is full, so typically the maximum wait is 15 minutes off season, but this can be as much as 90 minutes at the height of the season.