Oakdene is the perfect holiday property for large groups wanting to explore the Yorkshire Dales or Lake District National Parks. The property is located just outside Sedbergh, on the western side of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Oakdene also offers easy access to the Lake District which is just 15 miles away. If you’re looking for places to visit in the Yorkshire Dales or Lakes, our charming Victorian property offers an the perfect convenient base!
There is an excellent network of footpaths to explore, which lead right from the doorstep offering differing walks and cycle rides to suit every visitor, whether you are looking for a quiet afternoon stroll or a more energetic and invigorating fell walk or ride.
Farfield Mill built-in 1837, is just a few hundred yards away. The Mill now houses an Arts and Heritage Centre with craft studios, tearoom and shop, exhibitions and demonstrations of cloth weaving.
Sedbergh, England’s book town, is less than a mile away. The stone-built, historic market town has a twelfth-century Norman church to explore, as well as Castlehaw, the site of an ancient motte and bailey castle which overlooks the town.
Just 5 miles away is the beautiful cobbled village of Dent, where you will find an art gallery, blacksmith’s shop and memorial fountain to its famous son, geologist Adam Sedgwick.
The whole of the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District are within easy driving distance with catering to an abundance of interests and attractions, from exploring pretty lakeside villages to spotting red squirrels in Snaizeholme or, for the more adventurous, canoeing the local rivers!
The relatively open character of the uplands, and the lack of modern development, is especially important. To walk freely across the fells, or climb their crags, is liberating and gives a feeling of wildness. To many the Lake District is a place where it is possible to feel remote, yet know the nearest settlement is never far away.
The Lake District National Park is famous for its stunning scenery, abundant wildlife and cultural heritage. Things to see in the Lake District include the region’s abundance of cool clear lakes, tarns and rivers, which are nationally important for their range of habitats, and species, such as vendace, charr, crayfish and schelly. The lakes and tarns give the Lake District a quality of scenery and recreational resource found nowhere else in England.
The semi-natural woodlands add texture, colour and variety to the landscape and also provide a home for native animals and plants. The high rainfall in the core of the National Park favours woodlands rich in Atlantic mosses and liverworts, ferns and lichen. The presence of wood pasture, pollards and old coppice woodland form part of the rich cultural heritage of the National Park.
There have been people in the Lake District since the end of the last ice age. The landscape reflects a long history of settlement with many traces of prehistoric and medieval field systems. Internationally important archaeological monuments include stone circles, Roman roads and forts, and charcoal blast furnaces.
The National Park has the highest concentration of outdoor activity centres in the UK. It is the birthplace of mountaineering and there is a tradition of unrestricted access to the fells together with an extensive network of public rights of way. Recreational walking can be traced from Wordsworth’s ‘Guide to the Lakes’ to the guides of more recent writers such as Wainwright. There’s a huge range of tourist facilities.
For more information please visit the official website of the Lake District National Park: www.lakedistrict.gov.uk.