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Augill Castle,

Kirby Stephen, Cumbria & The Lake District, United Kingdom

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Augill Castle

Augill Castle is located in Cumbria, England. Built in 1841 By John Pearson as a weekend retreat. John was the eldest brother of two, and allegedly after an argument, he wanted to build a house bigger and better than his brother’s. The castle boasts turrets, mullioned windows, castellated towers, and ornate lattice windows. The interior has a servants’ hall, kitchens, larders, a pantry, a drawing room, a great hall, a sitting room, a library, turret wardrobes, claw-footed tubs, and stained-glass windows. In 1997, Simon and Wendy Bennett purchased the run-down Victorian country house. The Bennett’s renovated the castle, and it currently serves as a family-run boutique hotel with The Music Room restaurant and The Great British Bar. The castle sits on twenty acres with gardens. Augill Castle has thirteen bedrooms, suites, and cottages in which to stay. 

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£1,500 raised for Brough School at festive murder mystery evening Brough Community Primary School Fundraisers (BEST) raised just over £1,500 and kicked off the festive season with a fabulous evening at Brough Memorial Hall on Saturday 30 November. Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2019/12/09/1500-raised-for-brough-school-at-festive-murder-mystery-evening/

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An exciting new dining experience in a Cumbrian castle An award-winning Cumbrian castle hotel has reinvented itself as a premier dining destination in a collaboration with a top county chef Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2019/11/28/an-exciting-new-dining-experience-in-a-cumbrian-castle/

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Cumbrian hotelier shortlisted for second Lakeland Book of the Year prize A local author and hotelier has been nominated for his second Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year award Full story: http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2017/07/04/cumbrian-hotelier-shortlisted-second-lakeland-book-year-prize/

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Why the Lake District needs you this spring

Simon Bennett, owner of Augill Castle, reflects on one of Cumbria’s most difficult seasons and why you should fall for the fells this spring.

Not since the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 has Cumbria and the Lake District so badly needed the support of those who love it.

As the county opens up for a new season, flinging open our windows and doors at the first, welcome signs of spring - curlews and lapwings circling overhead, fields filling with a new generation of lambs, every bank covered by snowdrops and daffodils - our roads are emptier, our byways quieter.

The Lake District is no stranger to literary motifs. Its brooding fells, endlessly changing skies and fathomless lakes and tarns inspired the likes of Wordsworth, Ruskin and Coleridge, Beatrix Potter and Arthur Ransome and countless others since.

One particular bon mot with no less a luminous provenance sums up this wild corner of England as well as any. From the father of fell walking, Alfred Wainwright, ‘there is no such thing as bad weather, just unsuitable clothing.’

Anyone who has spent any time in the Lakes can attest to the enduring truth behind this seemingly flippant observation and many a visitor will paraphrase Mark Twain by adding, ‘if you don’t like the weather in the Lakes, just wait a few minutes,’ usually with fondness; with a sense of irony only if they haven’t taken Wainwright’s sensible packing advice.

But repeat all this to residents of Cumbria this winter and you might get more than the usual wry smile and knowing nod.

This winter there really has been bad weather.

On the weekend of December 4 & 5 Storm Desmond dumped the UK’s highest recorded rainfall at Honister in the heart of the Lake District. Thirteen and a half inches fell in just 24 hours.

For those who were flooded, who lost their businesses or were forced out of their homes, it has been nothing short of devastating. But this is a vast county. River plains flood, not the fells, upland moorland and rolling hills which are our backbone. And that same water which caught us unawares feeds the beating heart of this place - the rivers are the life-givers, the blood supply of the Lakes.

This is a county of resilient people. For centuries Cumbrians have hewn the unforgiving landscape to make a precarious living from the land, harnessing nature in order to become, if not its master, certainly not its slave.

Thanks to millions of pounds worth of flood defences, there was less destruction that there would otherwise have been allowing the most badly affected areas to stay open for business in the run up to Christmas and to recover subsequently far quicker than might have been the case. 

These are communities not to be beaten by the elements which have shaped the unique landscape of which they are a part. But in 2016 a new adversary has emerged stronger than ever before. For those of us who rely on visitors to the county the negative public perception of the county’s predicament, whipped up by a hysterical media is endangering our livelihoods. At a time when we need to be recovering and rebuilding, we find ourselves more helpless than ever.

Water was here long before men. It is never far away. The people, places, sights, tastes and adventures that the Lake District has to offer that have been shaped by it are still here and need visitors to return to ensure the landscape so beloved of so many continues to prosper.

Find the very best boltholes from which to marvel at Cumbria’s dramatic landscape with its rolling hills, crystal lakes and hard-earned optimism: www.sawdays.co.uk/Cumbria

Simon Bennett is owner of Augill Castle near Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria’s magnificent Eden Valley, featured by Sawday’s since 1998. Simon wrote about his experiences of running the castle in Undressed For Dinner, voted Lakeland Book of the Year in 2014. The sequel, Stop For Breakfast is due to be published later this year.

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Historic holidays for kings and queens: rent a castle in the UK

Historic holidays for kings and queens: rent a castle in the UK

Who hasn’t dream about being part of the royalty? Whose little children don’t play dressing up like kings and queens? For all of them, Niche Escapes found some stunning British castles that can be the perfect option to rent for an historic holiday with the family, as a couple or even for a wedding or big party.

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