Introduction Please Note: After the Foot and Mouth crisis there has been accommodation lake district, a great deal of concern over access for walking within The Lake District. We are pleased to assure you that at Hazelbank Country House is hotels in lake district, open for business, including all pathways in the surrounding areas. If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact us. Hazel Bank Country House has guest house lake district, now been awarded joint winner in the Bed & Breakfast Awards 2001, please click here for further information. Brenda and Glen Davies, the proud owners english lake district, and managers of Hazel Bank, invite you to browse through their website in the hope that one day they will have the opportunity and pleasure of welcoming you to their hazel bank country house, home. Hazel Bank stands in 4 acres of garden and woodland in an elevated position overlooking the village of Rosthwaite with unsurpassed views of the Borrowdale valley and the central lakeland peaks. This imposing early Victorian residence was built in 1850 by a wealthy businessman, Thomas Simpson, on his return from bed and breakfast cumbria, America to the valley of his forebears. Hazel Bank was to be the dream home for the Simpson family. Access is up its own private driveway over a humpbacked bridge - b and b cumbria, Simpson Bridge - where Hazel Bank stands proudly above the valley floor some 200 yards away from the main Borrowdale road. Its situation provides a tranquil b+b cumbria, and peaceful location for walkers and tourists alike. Sir Hugh Walpole, the famous novelist, lived nearby in Grange - In - Borrowdale and was a friend to the Simpson self catering lake district, family and as such was a frequent visitor to Hazel Bank. It is not surprising that he used this setting in his "Herries Chronicles" as the home of the Rogue Herries and, self catering cumbria the birthplace of Judith Paris, referring to it as "the house with the dormers like eyebrows". Hazel Bank has been receiving guests for over 60 years and the present owners