Wherever you are in the North West, the range of delicious food on offer at National Trust tea-rooms and restaurants, and from local suppliers, is second to none.
Free range eggs; organic vegetables, traditional cakes and pastries, locally reared meat and poultry – the Trust aims to use local suppliers wherever possible to ensure that in addition to our visitors’ enjoyment, we also help support local business and therfore, local economies.
In the Lake District, the Trust has more than 90 tenanted farms, providing a living, often a hard one, for local families. We aim to help our farmers in a number of ways, including support of appropriate diversification (often tourist led) and marketing of produce that comes directly from Trust farms.
So why not enjoy some local flavour as part of your Lake District experience – several of our farmers sell local produce from their shop or from the farm gate and there are several farm tea-rooms – and don’t miss the opportunity to taste Herdwick meat – a speciality of the Lake District!
Just 10 minutes from the M6 motorway you will find Acorn Bank tea-room situated in wonderful gardens, and at Fell Foot Park on the lakeshore at Windemere, you can enjoy afternoon tea in a Victorian Boathouse!
©Ian Shaw
Tea rooms which sell local produce to take away:
- The Flock Inn, Yew Tree Farm, Rosthwaite, Borrowdale
- Low Sizergh Farm Shop and tea-room near Kendal Tel: 015394 37364
Produce sold from the farm gate:
- Bannerigg Farm, Windermere Tel: 015394 43362
- Millbeck Farm, Great Langdale Tel: 015394 37364
At the other end of the region, the great medieval deer parks at Dunham Massey and Lyme Park provide some of the finest quality venison on offer which is on sale to visitors. Lyme’s vast estate has traditionally been renowned for its excellent game and deer herd, and in the popular Ale Cellar tea-room, specialities of the house include Game Pate, and Hunting Pie.
©Nick Garbutt
Meanwhile at Little Moreton Hall, a selection of delicious home made scones, bread and cakes will tempt the visitor to stop for tea, whilst the new restaurant at Quarry Bank Mill offers a range of meals using fresh produce grown in the property’s 18th-century Apprentice House garden.
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