O/nite accom in village north of Liverpool
Jan 11th, 2015, 05:56 PM
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O/nite accom in village north of Liverpool
We are travelling north between Liverpool and Windermere late afternoon (early August) and looking for some form of accommodation for the night in a small village/town that we could also get a meal. Can anyone offer any suggestions please?
Jan 12th, 2015, 02:17 AM
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From your post it sounds like that you will be driving yourselves and as janisj says, there is absolutely no reason to stop in between unless your accommodation in Windermere is not reserved until the following day. In August, it won't be dark until later in the evening and you have lots of time to get there in daylight. Take the signs from Liverpool for the M62 and then M6 North. Leave the M6 at junction 36 for Kendal and follow the signs from there to Windermere--A590/A591.
If you have to delay your arrival till the following day, then maybe stop at Lancaster, which has a historic castle and some nice restaurants. If you arrive early evening, you won't see the castle interior till the following day.
However, if you can get into your accommodation, go straight there, it's too close not to.
If you have to delay your arrival till the following day, then maybe stop at Lancaster, which has a historic castle and some nice restaurants. If you arrive early evening, you won't see the castle interior till the following day.
However, if you can get into your accommodation, go straight there, it's too close not to.
Jan 13th, 2015, 01:18 PM
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Thank you for your responses.
Let me explain further; we are travelling with an elderly lady, we will arrive late afternoon at either Liverpool or Manchester airport, we then collect car & luggage and begin the 145km drive north. We are in no hurry hence the idea of overnighting at a picturesque village/town along the way.
Do you have any further suggestions please?
Let me explain further; we are travelling with an elderly lady, we will arrive late afternoon at either Liverpool or Manchester airport, we then collect car & luggage and begin the 145km drive north. We are in no hurry hence the idea of overnighting at a picturesque village/town along the way.
Do you have any further suggestions please?
Jan 13th, 2015, 09:41 PM
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Still Windermere.
Lancaster, for example, has one or two nice things to see if you've got nothing better to do. But by no stretch of anyone's imagination is Lancaster picturesque or a village.
There are pleasant little villages not far off the M6 - like Ribchester, for example or possibly a few other places up in the hills west of the motorway, and you might find a pub in one of them with rooms.
But this isn't Devon or the Cotswolds: the area between South Lancashire and the Lakes just isn't set up for car-based "pottering around"-style tourism in a car. And those nice hills can turn quickly into still not completely dead mill towns or their dying hinterland.
Mostly, the hotel infrastructure is about opportunistic chains catering for business travellers (usually in hideous places close to motorways or post-industrial estates), function-oriented wedding barns or cheap places for hardy moor-walkers. Apart from the coastal strip, you're travelling through the aftermath of 200 years of world-transforming mass industrialisation.
This is a HUGE generalisation. But I'd say that nowhere in the lowlands west of the M6 is there a single well-located pretty hotel. The coastal resorts have their following - but after half a century of looking, I've yet to find anywhere on the coast I'd overnight if there wasn't some pressing family, business or social reason for doing so.
To be blunt: with the Lakes so close it really does seem perverse to go out of your way finding somewhere to stay for no better reason than avoiding staying near them.
Lancaster, for example, has one or two nice things to see if you've got nothing better to do. But by no stretch of anyone's imagination is Lancaster picturesque or a village.
There are pleasant little villages not far off the M6 - like Ribchester, for example or possibly a few other places up in the hills west of the motorway, and you might find a pub in one of them with rooms.
But this isn't Devon or the Cotswolds: the area between South Lancashire and the Lakes just isn't set up for car-based "pottering around"-style tourism in a car. And those nice hills can turn quickly into still not completely dead mill towns or their dying hinterland.
Mostly, the hotel infrastructure is about opportunistic chains catering for business travellers (usually in hideous places close to motorways or post-industrial estates), function-oriented wedding barns or cheap places for hardy moor-walkers. Apart from the coastal strip, you're travelling through the aftermath of 200 years of world-transforming mass industrialisation.
This is a HUGE generalisation. But I'd say that nowhere in the lowlands west of the M6 is there a single well-located pretty hotel. The coastal resorts have their following - but after half a century of looking, I've yet to find anywhere on the coast I'd overnight if there wasn't some pressing family, business or social reason for doing so.
To be blunt: with the Lakes so close it really does seem perverse to go out of your way finding somewhere to stay for no better reason than avoiding staying near them.
Jan 14th, 2015, 01:25 AM
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The 145 km drive is mostly on motorways, where the speed limit is 70mph. There is a stretch on the M6 that is 50mph at the moment but you're still going to be in Windermere in 90 minutes or so from either airport.
As flanner says, the hotels along the M-Way, or just off it aren't situated anywhere that could be remotely described as picturesque, unless you're prepared to drive for 30/40 minutes off the road to get somewhere like Whitewell.
http://www.innatwhitewell.com/
Otherwise if you must stop somewhere, try the Barton Grange Hotel on the A6 near Preston. It's a nice hotel on a main road, but picturesque? http://www.bartongrangehotel.co.uk/
By the time you'd get to Whitewell, you'd be in Windermere, but it is a lovely place with a good restaurant.
As flanner says, the hotels along the M-Way, or just off it aren't situated anywhere that could be remotely described as picturesque, unless you're prepared to drive for 30/40 minutes off the road to get somewhere like Whitewell.
http://www.innatwhitewell.com/
Otherwise if you must stop somewhere, try the Barton Grange Hotel on the A6 near Preston. It's a nice hotel on a main road, but picturesque? http://www.bartongrangehotel.co.uk/
By the time you'd get to Whitewell, you'd be in Windermere, but it is a lovely place with a good restaurant.
Jan 14th, 2015, 08:47 AM
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>>Let me explain further; we are travelling with an elderly lady, we will arrive late afternoon at either Liverpool or Manchester airport, we then collect car & luggage and begin the 145km drive north. We are in no hurry hence the idea of overnighting at a picturesque village/town along the way.<<
Sorry, but that changes - absolutely nothing. It is a fast, comfortable drive. Detouring to somewhere nice would take just about as long as continuing on to the Lakes. I am always telling people to slow down and not try to cover too much territory. This is one case where it makes no sense to slow down at all. Get you luggage, pick up your car, and drive to Windermere. No need to add in an additional check in/check out, unpack/pack.
Sorry, but that changes - absolutely nothing. It is a fast, comfortable drive. Detouring to somewhere nice would take just about as long as continuing on to the Lakes. I am always telling people to slow down and not try to cover too much territory. This is one case where it makes no sense to slow down at all. Get you luggage, pick up your car, and drive to Windermere. No need to add in an additional check in/check out, unpack/pack.
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