Plan your weekend

Walk here: For Wordsworth download your free route guide at www.lfto.com/bonus routes; for Withnail turn to Walk 17 in this issue.

Stay here: Grasmere is a great basecamp with lots of good B&Bs. beck allans ( www. beckallansguesthouse.co.uk) is a favourite, with five rooms in a handsome stone house. Doubles from £92pn. Good budget options too at yha Grasmere butharlyp howe ( www.yha. org.uk/hostel/yha-grasmere-butharlyp-howe, dorm beds from £10) and the independent

Grasmere hostel ( www.grasmerehostel.co.uk, beds from £24).

eat here: The Grasmere Gingerbread shop is a classic ( www.grasmeregingerbread.co.uk) and lucia’s bakery ( www.facebook.com/ luciastakeaway) does a fine line in bread and sausage rolls for a picnic, or linger over coffee and cake in Mathilde’s cafe at the Heaton Cooper Studio ( www.heatoncooper.co.uk/ mathildes-cafe). Book early for dinner at the

jumble room ( www.thejumbleroom.co.uk) a tiny, quirky place with a big reputation, serving dishes like Persian lamb rump and pork and shrimp dim sum.

More info: www.golakes.co.uk; Ambleside visitor information centre on 0844 225 0544.