Craig Manor Hotel & Restaurant
windermere, Cumbria

Welcome to the Craig Manor Hotel, owned and run by the Harwood family. The hotel has experienced a major refurbishment in 2004. Our experience of 35 years as hoteliers in the Lake District has taught us that if guests enjoy their first visit they will return time and time again. Our aim therefore is to make all your visits as enjoyable as possible. The Craig Manor Hotel nestles on the brow of a hill overlooking Lake Windermere, Langdale Pikes and surrounding mountains. Just a short stroll from the front door is the village of Bowness with its pubs, shops, cafes and museum. Guests can walk to the lake shore and maybe take a cruise to nearby Ambleside. Our guests have complimentary use of the facilities of Parklands leisure club. Here, guests may swim, play badminton, squash, use the multi gym, or relax in the steam room, sauna or jacuzzi with perhaps a game of snooker afterwards in their comfortable lounge where snacks and drinks are also served. Parklands Leisure club is within easy reach from the hotel, taking 5 minutes by car. The area around Windermere abounds with places of special interest, there are over 30 visitors centres and attractions open all year. Water skiing, wind surfing, horse riding and fell walking are all within easy reach of the hotel. If you prefer a game of golf we can arrange times for you, at a number of local courses. Craig Manor hotel offers its guests a choice of rooms. Choose from deluxe rooms, four poster rooms, a room with a lake view or Suite. All the Craig Manor bedrooms are tastefully furnished to a high standard and with every facility you would expect from a three star hotel. Whatever your reasons are for staying at the Craig Manor, be it a short break, romantic weekend or as an ideal base for touring the English Lakes, you can be sure of a warm welcome.

Windermere is a town in Cumbria, England, lying about one kilometre away from the lake of the same name. Although Windermere confusingly does not touch the lake, it has now grown together with the older lakeside town of Bowness-on-Windermere, though the two retain distinguishable town centres. There are a number of museums, but the main draw for its many tourists is the lake. Boats from the piers in Bowness (about a fifteen-minute walk from the top of Windermere town) sail around the lake, many calling at Ambleside or at Lakeside where there is a restored railway. Windermere town was known as Birthwaite prior to the arrival of the Kendal and Windermere Railway, which stimulated its development. Windermere station offers train and bus connections to the surrounding area, Manchester, Manchester Airport, and the West Coast Main Line. The geological formations around the area take their name from the town. They are called the Windermere Group of sedimentary rocks. The town's name is also given to the Rt. Hon. Dr David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere, who now lives in Windermere.