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Advantages: Could not be better positioned at the heart of Coniston. Disadvantages: Service was slow but friendly.
We recently spent a few glorious days walking in the Lake District and had forgotten just how beautiful it is there. Based in Coniston and renting one of the Coppermines cottages we had plenty to do during our short stay including walking up the Old Man of Coniston - thats a mountain by the way! - We also spent one day walking from Lake Coniston up into the hills to Tarn Hows which is a simply lovely mountain lake surrounded by hills and woodland.
On the way back it started to rain just as we got into Coniston and so we ducked into the Yewdale Hotel and decided to have a couple of drinks and dinner while we waited out the rain.
This review is therefore for the restaurant only.
The hotel is a Victorian stone and slate building right at the centre of Coniston in a prominent position near the bridge and over the road from ...
Advantages: Chocolate Tiffin, Real Ales, Peace and Quiet Disadvantages: I only get to go about 4 times a year
My review is specifically about the gorgeous village of Coniston.
My fiancee and I go up to Coniston about 4 times a year and have been doing for nearly five years now, so it can't be bad!
The village of Coniston is situated at the North-western tip of Coniston Water, the lake where Donald Campbell famously crashed and died while attempting to break the water speed record. Unlike its more overstated neighbours (Windermere, Bowness and Ambleside), Coniston is almost unspoilt by tourism / commercialism, but that's not to say it is not a tourist resort. The local community have managed to retain the natural beauty of the town even in the face of all the visitors it receives. The roads are still narrow and winding. The buildings are constructed mainly of slate and stone - not a new-build in sight! And the water is free ...
Advantages: Single varietal bottle conditioned beer from a Lake District microbrewery. Now easily available at your local supermarket Disadvantages: A touch bitter for my delicate palate - but that's only a personal view
Once again I have ventured to the beer shelves of the local supermarket. I have passed over this, to Tyneside at least, relatively local brew before but this week I decided that Bluebird?s hour had come.
I have had only a fleeting acquaintance with the far north west of England. Sure I have been impressed with the scenery in passing but I am neither walker or boater. Judith on the other hand is a creature of The Lakes. Given half a chance she would buy a cottage and spend every weekend there. It was a girlhood dream to open a tea shop serving home made cakes and scones. My personal ambitions are rather further flung and warmer but the future is where the stuff of dreams can come true.
THE BREWERY
The Coniston Brewing Company was founded by Ian Bradley and Rob Irwin. It is located in the picturesque town on Coniston in ...
Newfloridian 19.09.2003
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