The Wordsworth Hotel, Grasmere

In the heart of Grasmere, the 4-star Wordsworth Hotel has a 2 AA Rosette-awarded restaurant and free Wi-Fi. Guests have free use of the spa pool and heated indoor pool.

Each en suite bedroom has a flat-screen TV, tea/coffee facilities, bathrobes and bottled mineral water. Most of the rooms have Egyptian cotton sheets and room service is available 24 hours a day.

The award-winning Signature Restaurant offers fine dining. Dove Bistro serves tasty food and local ales. The Wordsworth Hotel has log fires, and striking views across the village and the fells beyond.

Close by are the Wordsworth Museum as well as Heaton Cooper Studios and St Oswald’s Church where William Wordsworth is buried.