Newlands Holidays - Self Catering Lake District

29/01/2026

Our visitors from the South were very happy to have escaped the storm and floods yesterday and experience this wonderful day with us

02/11/2025

🎅🏼 Santa’s Grotto 2025 is now LIVE!

Far beneath the Lake District fells lies something truly special – a hidden world where Santa and his elves wait to be found.

Join us on a festive adventure that begins in the mountains and takes your whole family on a journey deep underground to Santa’s secret grotto. Expect twinkling tunnels, storytelling magic and a few surprises along the way…

What’s included:
✨ A festive journey to Santa’s grotto hidden deep inside a Lake District mountain
✨ A gift for every child
✨ Festive drink & snack
✨ Reindeer food for Christmas Eve
✨ NEW for 2025 – finish with a laugh-out-loud underground sledging finale!

This is more than a visit to Santa – it’s a magical, memory-making day out the whole family will remember forever.

🎟️ Booking now open – limited dates available
👉 honister.com/product/santas-grotto/
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17/07/2025

Our nightly visit from the Barn Owl who hunts in the fields surrounding us - all our visitors come out to watch and this video was captured by one of them yesterday

20/06/2025

A regular visitor to the fields around us is this beautiful Barn Owl, photographed sitting on the gate to our meadow.

10/01/2025

Such a beautiful time to be in the Lake District ❄️

15/07/2024

Anybody who comes here on holiday and then gets into difficulties on the fells is entirely dependent on the amazing volunteers of Mountain Rescue. They’ve been filmed for a year for a Channel 4 series called Lake District Rescue. Give it a watch; it’s so interesting!

A four-part TV series captures the work of mountain rescue teams in the Lake District.

24/05/2024

In the private Wildlife Garden of our property The Byre, we put owl boxes up last year and to our absolute delight we now have a Barn Owl living in one. These are relatively rare; we’ve never personally seen one in this valley before and now our Byre guests have the pleasure of seeing one 😁

11/05/2024

Derwentwater 🩵💙

25/03/2024

For those attempting Scafell Pike while visiting the Lake District please take note of this announcement from Mountain Rescue - we want all out visitors to be safe!

19/01/2024

Any of our visitors who have been ghyll scrambling - or are interested in trying it - might like to watch Robson Green ghyll scrambling in Stoneycroft Ghyll behind the properties - link here 👇🏼

Robson and his Uncle Matheson are in the Lakes to ghyll scramble and produce textile art.

15/01/2024

A fabulous day in the Lake District today … 😎

09/11/2023

We are having THE most beautiful Autumn this year - the views from the properties - the magical colours of woodland walks - we are loving this season 🍁🍃🍂