Our Winter upgrading works has included regrading the lower camping field, and although it is good to go for camping we are concerned that traffic on this part of the site will damage it. As a result vehicles will be asked to park up at the entrance to the lower camp site and carry their tents etc to their preferred pitch.

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Our new caterers, Rural Recipes Catering, will be on site all week and starting the week with an evening meal on the Friday. Don’t forget to pre-book your meal.

BASSENTHWAITE Lake isn’t a lake at all. It’s a railway station.

The railway engineers had the option of serving Bassenthwaite by going north of Broadwater, with a station near the village, or south of it, with a station near the lake, at Dubwath.

The railway called that station “Bassenthwaite Lake Station”, to distinguish it from the proposed “Bassenthwaite Village Station” – but the arriving tourists thought that was the name of the lake.

Eventually, Ordnance Survey gave up trying to keep the proper name and so Broadwater now appears on maps as “Bassenthwaite Lake”.