Book Your Holiday Cottage in the Lake District with Confidence Welcome to our beautiful region We take great care to ensure your safety in our properties, and we thank you for your cooperation and support with this. Please do not arrive and try to check in until the confirmed check in time. Our office is open from: Monday to Thursday 9:30am to 4:30pm, Friday & Saturday 9:30am to 5pm Sunday – Closed Please contact us if you need any help with your booking or during your stay. You’ll find our team hard at work in a traditional, converted stone carriage building in sleepy Elterwater, at the gateway of the stunning Great Langdale Valley. From here, we help people find all sorts of charming local hideaways, from converted barns to rambling stone-built parsonages. So whatever sort of Lake District break you’re looking for, give us a shout and we’ll use our in-depth local expertise to find you a place you’ll love. Phone us and you’ll be talking to Denise, Helen, Pip or Julie – all with years of knowledge about what makes our region great. Whether you’re looking for walks, cream teas, paddling, peddling or paragliding, they’ll point you in the right direction. And if you need anything sorting out during your stay, just give us a buzz and our team of locally based housekeepers, handymen and problem solvers will be on it in a flash. Best wishes, and take care. The team at Wheelwrights Cottages

Pippins, or No 7 Neaum Crag, is a first floor apartment tucked away in a small peaceful woodland setting within the Neaum Development of purpose built holiday apartments and wooden chalets. The property enjoys shared natural grounds around Neaum Crag extending approx 18 acres and is well placed to enjoy the surrounding area. Accommodation for up to four guests comprises of a double bedroom featuring a king sized bed and a twin bedroom. The spacious kitchen, open plan dining area and lounge are pleasantly furnished in modern style. From the hallway there is a WC and shower room. From the bedroom and lounge, doors lead on to a balcony with seating area offering fantastic views across the pond, woodland and Langdale Fells. Guests staying at Pippins Neaum Crag can enjoy shared use of the indoor heated swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna and table tennis - open March the 1st to November the 12th. In the pool hall is a coin-operated washer and dryer.

The surrounding woodland is protected by a tree preservation order and the bird life is abundant. Red Squirrels, roe and, occasionally, red deer can be spotted as they wander through the grounds. However, they are rarely seen in summer when the vegetation is high and badgers snuffle around in the small hours. Neaum Crag is handy for access to the Langdale valley, close to Chesters by the River Café and the Talbot Bar at Skelwith Bridge and Ambleside only a few miles away. Stagecoach 516 at Skelwith Bridge is just a 5 minute walk from Neaum Crag Estate. History of the Neaum Crag Estate: Neaum Crag House was the original main dwelling surrounded by woodland with a Coach House and kitchen garden. In the late 1800’s Fleming occupied the house. He was a friend of Ruskin, the Victorian English writer, philosopher and art critic. The house was extended at that time and developed to look much as it appears today. There was a tower above the roof line, now gone, with windows to all sides which must have given superb panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. The grounds would have been managed and laid out with paths running through the woodlands. The area where the pool facilities now stand was a kitchen garden complete with large sundial. Most of the mature native and specimen trees date from this period. From the 1980s Neaum Crag began installing timber ‘mobile homes’ instead of taking touring caravans. The estate is quite the hidden gem today, with more substantial lodge structures taking over from the earlier designs. A public footpath runs to Skelwith Bridge with its hotel, slate galleries with products for sale and Chesters By The River Café, a modern cafe with riverside deck, serving homemade lunch, wood-fired pizza and classic cakes. There is an easy and pleasant path alongside the river Brathay up to Elterwater.