If you feel that you are staying in a magazine photo-shoot, it’s probably because you are. You’ve read the Country Living magazine, now live the life at Lansdown Grove Hotel
Opened in the early part of the 20th century, the Waterhead Hotel, south of Ambleside, was one of a new ‘breed’ of hotels purpose-built to accommodate the rising tide of affluent tourists to the Lake District.
Combining cosiness and comfort with jaw-dropping grandeur is a hard act to pull off, but the Lygon Arms, queen of all Cotswolds hotels, achieves it with considerable panache.