Haweswater Hotel (opens in new tab) hotel
about 2.5 km from the start, in a straight line
It is the only one of the six candidates inside this radius whose site returned a single byte, and it happens to answer two of the questions that matter at this start. A walker arriving with a dog gets a real answer rather than a slogan: twelve rooms are named, and the page goes further and offers the opposite choice too ("Please let us know if you prefer to stay in a non-dog friendly room"), which tells a party with a dog-averse member as much as it tells the dog owner. And there is a restaurant on site with two rosettes, which at a start this far up the Haweswater road decides whether you get back in the car after the walk. What it does not answer is the whole family half of the row — no children, cot, family room, parking, drying or breakfast wording exists anywhere in the four cached pages — so a family should phone before booking rather than read anything into the silence.
It went up in 1937 as part of the Haweswater dam works, and it exists because the reservoir drowned the inn it replaced — the old Dun Bull. Its own history page also claims it is the only building in the hundred square miles of nature reserve around the lake.
- Dogs “Dogs are allowed in the following rooms: Wainwright, Mardale, Lonsdale, Westmorland, Artle Crag, Lakeside, Measand, Whelter Crag, Swindale, Cawdale, Rosgil, Wet Sleddle.”
- Evening meal “Our restaurant was awarded Two Rosettes in 2024”