WHILE YOU’RE HERE

  • Enjoy food, coffees and teas

    With delicious homemade food in a beautiful setting, it’s the perfect place for a leisurely visit. Soak up the feeling of days gone by sitting in the beautiful barn. Try a delicious selection of hot and cold homemade food, tea or specialty coffees using Farrer’s coffees, our freshly-baked scones, as well as the famous Dalemain marmalade ginger cake. You might even book in an afternoon tea.

  • A chance to shop

    Look out for the selection of delicious Dalemain Marmalades, along with our Marmalade Award winners, exclusively available for you to buy at Dalemain and Fortnum & Mason, London. There is a range of other items perfect for gifts for all ages or momento of your visit. There is a plant stall with a good selection of plants for all types of garden produced from the garden.

  • Wildlife

    You can enjoy the countryside for its beauty and connect with nature at Dalemain. Lambs play in the Spring, cattle chew the cud behind gates in the long Summer days and the red squirrels enjoy the nuts from the walnut trees. There is a lot to see at Dalemain. There is an ancient herd of fallow deer in the deer park while song birds and swallows fly through the courtyard.

Walk from Dalemain

The best walk from Dalemain is called the “Dalemain Loop” which is approximately a 5 mile loop. The route leads walkers through historic parkland, along the Eamont River to Pooley Bridge and back via the charming village of Dacre, which boasts a castle, an ancient church with mysterious stone ‘bears’. It has incredible views towards the high fells with little effort required and delicious coffee or food to start or finish at Dalemain, where there is free parking.

We have also specifically planned the route to avoid cars and bicycles for much of the journey making it enjoyable for every walker.

If you just want a chance to stretch your legs or something not demanding then the Church Road (a private, flat farm track) might be what you are looking for. This is 1 mile to Dacre and then back.

From Dalemain, you can also link to the ‘Ullswater Way’ which is a 22 mile route around the lake, or give up and catch the steamer en route.

The Dalemain Loop has been clearly signposted with Ullswater Way Loop markers. An illustrated official guide to the Ullswater Way can be purchased at Dalemain in the Official Guide to the Ullswater Way with a donation made to the National Park for every copy sold to keep the Way in good repair.

Click here to download a PDF map of the Dalemain Loop.