An area of outstanding beauty, the Lake District is a favourite destination for walking in England. This is the place for tranquil English walking breaks where you can escape the hustle and bustle of town life for some of the best hiking in the United Kingdom.

The Lake District is a region championed by Alfred Wainwright, a famous writer and fell walker from Lancashire. His legendary "Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells" guide book has been used as a yardstick for English walking breaks for decades has had a spike in popularity with the recently televised "Wainwright’s Walks" and "Coast to Coast" on the BBC. In the programs, the presenter, Julia Bradbury, embarks upon an extended United Kingdom hiking holiday, tracing the routes and descriptions laid down by Wainwright. The programs narrate some scenic and interesting routes for walking in England and provide an opportunity to show film footage of the remarkable landscapes along the way.

On a guided UK hiking holiday in the Western Lake District you will have the chance to explore Wainwright's favourite part of the world, visiting some of the two hundred or so fells that he wrote so passionately about and in such detail.

Hassness House, located about thirty miles to the north west of Kendal, is an ideal base in the Western Lake district for a number of United Kingdom hiking holiday routes. It shares a woodland clearing with the Dalegarth Guesthouse, but is otherwise isolated in a quiet landscape with superb views of the western fells. From here you can truly embark upon a variety of walking in England’s Lake District trails to mountain peaks, undulating hills, dramatic valleys and around wide lakes.

From Hassness House, a UK hiking holiday itinerary may lead you to see places like Fleetwith Pike or Crummock Water with some walks having easy stretches and other parts with terrain that is moderate to hard. The difficulty varies depending on the guided itineraries you may decide to choose. There are departure dates throughout the ideal months of September and October, with some guided English walking breaks in the Lake District also planned around Christmas time.

Buttermere is a lake not far from Hassness House, set in the centre of some of the most picturesque peaks. It is a mile and a quarter at it’s widest with a path round its edge, and walking here you can look up upon Haystacks and High Stile. Haystacks is a hill fell that from Buttermere appears to be crimped, like a Cornish pasty. There are tarns among the knuckles of rock at the top. Four miles away is the very different High Stile, which is over eight hundred metres high, and you can see for long distances from the summit.

This is a beautifully remote area of the United Kingdom for hiking without the everyday hassles and stresses of modern life. Hassness House itself, is a home away from home and as there is almost no mobile reception in the Lakes, you can rely on a UK hiking holiday here to be a retreat from the constant distractions of modern technology and working life.

In the spirit of environmentalism, the majority of the meals during your holiday walking in England at Hassness will be prepared from local produce. You can enjoy hearty home-cooked food that will ensure you have the energy needed at the trailhead the next day.