Walking from Rowling End and the Mouse House

Smaller Walks cont.

Down to the Lake - Across the fields to Skelgill and then down the lane to Hawes End. From here you can take a ferry to Keswick or other stopping points on the lake. The ferries run regularly around the lake in both clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. Our children love swimming in and picnicking by the lake. There is a footpath that runs around the lake and this can link into walks over Catbells or some of the paths that run around its flanks.

Around the valley - There is a path that runs around the base of Catbells from Skellgil to Littletown from where a path runs across the fields from Littletown back to Skelgill from which you can easily drop back down to Rowling End. For a longer walk take the old mine road further up the valley towards Dale Head. After approx ½ mile there is a footbridge across the stream that allows you to return by way of Low Snab Farm to Littletown Church. From here you can walk back to Rowling End along the little lanes via Rigg Beck.

Further afield:

Buttermere - The walk around the lake is wonderful. Buttermere is also the starting point for Wainwright’s all time favourite walk - Haystacks.

Watendlath - A small hamlet in a valley above Borrowdale. The narrow road to Watendlath gets very busy during the main holiday season, but the walks to Watendlath from Rosthwaite and Seathwaite via Dock Tarn are lovely.

Mountain Biking - Mountain Bikes can be hired from Whinlatter Forest Park which has some great trails of varying degrees of difficulty.