Rampsbeck Country House Hotel, Watermillock

By Lake Ullswater, Rampsbeck Country House offers a 3 AA Rosette restaurant and spacious rooms. The rooms have digital flat-screen TVs, free Wi-Fi and Bose music systems.

Rampsbeck House Hotel's candlelit restaurant serves fine French and British cuisine. There is a lounge bar with a terrace, where afternoon tea and drinks are served.

Each elegant room at the award-winning Rampsbeck Hotel features satellite TV, fruit, mineral water and bathrobes. Some of the individually designed rooms have four-poster beds or roll-top baths.

In acres of parkland and gardens, the 18th-century house has views of the lake and fells. Less than 15 minutes from the M6 motorway, Lake Ullswater is ideal for visiting Windermere, Ambleside and Keswick.