Hipping Hall Country House Hotel, Kirkby Lonsdale - Highlights

Just pottering around the nearby
Dales, visiting the waterfalls or caves
at Ingleton, looking round Kirkby
Lonsdale, Dent and Settle needs a
day or two; with Lake Windermere
and the spectacular Settle-Carlisle
railway both only a half hour's drive
away, even one of our Three Day
Breaks is too short to see all that this
beautiful part of Britain has to offer.



Walkers too find Hipping Hall
a convenient centre. Our stile
leads on to the footpath that
will take you over Leck Fell
into Barbondale or across into
Kingsdale; whilst a twenty
minute drive will bring you to
the Forest of Bowland and its
expanse of empty hills
overlooking the Irish Sea.

Somewhere different where you will
feel you're staying in a private
country-house, rather than a hotel.
For above all else, Hipping Hall is
our home.

It is the remnant of a hamlet
stemming from the 15th century,
taking its name from the "hipping" or
stepping stones where the old
drovers' road forded the stream,
beside which the ancient
wash-house (for washing fleeces)
still stands.


Today the hall is a handsome country-house set in three
acres of walled gardens, whose lush vegetation is evidence
of our sheltered location on the Cumbrian/Yorkshire
border at Cowan Bridge (where the Brontë sisters
attended the clergy daughters school).

We are 2 miles from the attractive market town of Kirkby
Lonsdale in the Lune Valley (the view Ruskin described as
"...one of the loveliest scenes in England - therefore in the
world"!!).

Cumbria - The Lake District, United Kingdom