🏠️ Places to stay near this start
about 8.2 km from the start, in a straight line
At 8.15 km SW this is outside our usual radius. It is the most useful independent option found in any direction: it is the only property in the whole search that pairs a boot room AND a drying area with a travel cot, a high chair and dog beds, and it is the nearest evidenced bed with a direct owner email. Right for a group or two families walking the Longsleddale Round together and self-catering.
It is a whole-house hostel of six bed-pod rooms sleeping up to 19 at No 1 High Street in Windermere, kitted for groups - travel cot, high chair, dog beds and bowls, boot room - and taken over entirely by one party rather than sold bed by bed to strangers.
- Drying room “a boot room for muddy shoes, and a drying area for your jackets after a day of exploring in the fells”
- Dogs “Bring your dog along! We offer dog beds, food bowls, and towels - just arrange ahead of time.”
- Family rooms “Our spacious accommodation for up to 19 guests features modern amenities and shared spaces”
- Children “We offer a travel cot and high chair for families traveling with little ones.”
about 9.1 km from the start, in a straight line
At 9.06 km it is outside our usual radius, and the only evidenced bed due north - the Haweswater side of the same fells the Longsleddale Round climbs, reached over the Gatescarth pass on foot. It is an independent hotel with a rosetted restaurant and a written-down dog policy naming twelve rooms, several of them named after the very ground the route covers (Swindale, Mardale, Artle Crag). Recommended for a couple or a pair of walkers, not on the family evidence - there is none.
It was built in 1937 by the Haweswater Dam scheme to replace the Dun Bull Inn at Mardale, which the reservoir drowned - an art deco hotel whose gardens reuse coping stones from the submerged Mardale walls, and whose first managers had run the old inn.
- 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”
about 9.0 km from the start, in a straight line
At 8.98 km ENE it is outside our usual radius, and the only evidenced bed on the eastern, A6 side of the fells. Exclusive use of the whole building for up to eight with dogs welcome and lay-by parking 70 yards away suits a walking group doing the round and wanting one base - provided they read the caveats: no running water, no drying room, no meals, bring bedding.
It is a converted telephone repeater station at 1,390 ft on Shap Fell beside the A6, completely off-grid - lighting from wind and solar, drinking water delivered in canisters, a chemical toilet in the side yard, and a roof-window put in for stargazing because the horizon is unusually low and wide.
- Dogs “The accommodation sleeps max eight people, with the starting price based on four sharing. Dogs are welcome.”
- Family rooms “The accommodation sleeps max eight people, with the starting price based on four sharing. Dogs are welcome.”
- Parking “Two very large lay-bys for ample parking within 70 yards.”
Also nearby, but not independent
about 7.0 km from the start, in a straight line
At 6.95 km WSW it is outside our usual 4.83 km radius, and it is here because nothing closer publishes anything at all. It is the best-evidenced bed of any kind near this start: a cot, ground-floor rooms, a shared drying room, breakfast from 07:30, evening meals and packed lunches are each stated on its own page, and the child policy is written down rather than inferred. A party doing the Longsleddale Round can dry kit and be fed without cooking.
The hostel building is an early concrete house of the late 1920s, opened as a hostel in 1935 and known until recently as High Cross Castle - the previous timber house on the site burned down in 1915, which is why its replacement was built in solid concrete.
- Drying room “Shared drying room”
- Family rooms “A cot is available.”
- Evening meal “With tasty breakfasts, packed lunches and evening meals, groups are sure to find something delicious to eat at YHA Windermere”
- Packed lunch “With tasty breakfasts, packed lunches and evening meals, groups are sure to find something delicious to eat at YHA Windermere”
- Parking “Free parking on premises”
- Children “Under 12s are not permitted in dorm rooms. Children under 3 can stay with us for free.”
about 8.8 km from the start, in a straight line
At 8.77 km it is outside our usual radius, and the only evidenced bed in the southern half of the compass - the Kendal/Staveley side that the Longsleddale valley road actually runs down. It is the nearest place found that states a drying room, a children's play area and a dog policy in its own words, and the minimum stay is written down rather than discovered at checkout.
It takes walk-in campers arriving on foot rather than by car - it advertises a backpacking facility - and it has its own bar, the Whistling Pig, with Staveley village and its railway station a field's walk away.
- Drying room “Drying room”
- Dogs “Windermere is a dog-friendly site and our campers are permitted to bring their pets with them for their stay.”
- Evening meal “On-site bar at the Whistling Pig”
- Parking “You are permitted to park one car on your pitch.”
- Children “There is an outdoor play area for children.”
Worth knowing before you book
These places state on their own site that they do not take children.
