Journal

The Signature Journal

Where we eat, walk, swim and send our guests.

Itineraries · 6 min

48 Hours in the Lake District

Two days is not long. Spent properly, it is entirely enough — a lake at dawn, a fell in the afternoon and a table worth crossing a county for.

Eating · 8 min

Cumbria's cooking has quietly become some of the most serious in Britain. Where we send guests, and how to get the table.

Outdoors · 5 min

Tarns, quiet bays and river pools — where to swim in the Lakes, and how to do it safely.

Itineraries · 5 min

A priory, a racecourse, two exceptional kitchens and a village you can cross in four minutes.

Outdoors · 9 min

Nine walks, from a thirty-minute climb with an outsized view to a full day on the high ridges.

Celebrations · 6 min

The houses in our collection built for long tables, big birthdays and the weekends people talk about for years.