Recent reviews Borrowdale
[apuskiduski, 23/03/2009] Advantages: Location, atmosphere, disabled facilities, great for families
Disadvantages: Wettest part of Britain, make and strip your own bunk, can be noisy
If you're heading to Borrowdale Youth Hostel on foot, you could be doing Wainwright's Coast to Coast footpath, or the Cumbria Way. Either way, it's highly likely that you'll also be very wet, as this hostel in Longthwaite, is a mere stone's throw away from Seathwaite which happens to be the wettest inhabited place in the British Isles with an average of 3,300 mm - that's 130 inches in old money - of cold, wet rain that's invariably h
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[apuskiduski, 23/03/2009] Advantages: Location, great food, welcoming and friendly, extensive grounds, laundry facilities
Disadvantages: Can be noisy in summer, make / strip your own bed, small drying room
Barrow House, now YHA Derwentwater, was built in the 1790s by the eccentric and wealthy Joseph Pocklington. Coincidentally, tourist numbers were also going up in the Keswick area at that time and the owner wanted to encourage this, but he also wanted to maintain the "Oldy Worldy Charm" that tourists come to love (and expect evidently).
So, further up the road from the house he had a hermitage built and advert
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