Things To Do

Golf is good in Cumbria. Golf just goes better in Cumbria. No crowds – wonderful springy turf to walk on – and a long list of first class courses just waiting for you to try.

Staying at Warwick Hall will put you in the centre of a variety of interesting courses. You’ll be spoiled for choice – here’s some useful information to help you decide.

Carlisle Golf Club
18 holes Par 73
An old course which deserves its reputation for quality.
About a mile from Warwick Hall
www.carlislegolfclub.org/

Brampton Golf Club
18 holes  Par 72
A challenging small course with views north to Scotland
Short, sharp hills will keep you fit and keep you interested.

About 5 miles from Warwick Hall
www.bramptongolfclub.com/
 
Eden Golf Club
18 Holes      Championship   Par 72
9 Holes        Hadrians Par 36

Two courses on the banks of the River Eden, beautifully landscaped.
First class instruction by Senior PGA Pro Steve Harrison.
Especially good programme for young golfers and other learners.
About 2 miles from Warwick Hall
www.edengolf.co.uk

Silloth Golf Club
18 holes  Par 72

 This is the dowager Queen of Cumbria Golf courses. A famous seaside links course that charms, seduces, and demands your very best efforts. We’ve been told it outclasses St Andrews.
About 45 minutes west of Warwick Hall
www.sillothgolfclub.co.uk/

Why not engage the services of a local guide to walk you through the history of Hadrian’s Wall?  Anna is an experienced and friendly Blue Badge tour guide who can help you understand the Wall and bring it to life.

Your tour can be completely personalised to suit your own particular interests and requirements.  Choose which parts you want to explore or how long you want to spend at a particular place.  Or ask Anna for some inspiring ideas.  Either way, you will receive a tour that will immeasurably enhance your experience of Hadrian’s Wall and its surroundings.

Anna is a registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for the whole of Cumbria including the Lake District National Park.  If you wish to explore further afield, please contact us at Warwick Hall for more information.

To learn more about Anna and what she does visit her website www.discoverlakeland.uk


Hadrian's Wall Walks
Introductory tour (from Carlisle)

This informative one-day tour provides a full introduction to Hadrian’s Wall through a balanced mix of site visits and short walks. You will see examples of all the different types of fortifications – turrets, milecastles, fort, the north ditch, vallum and remains of a Roman bridge – and take away a thorough understanding of how the Wall operated, who built it and why.

Scenic Hadrian’s Wall & Vindolanda
If you prefer to stride out along one of the most scenic sections of Hadrian’s Wall, this tour includes an exhilarating 3-mile (4.5 km) walk from Steel Rigg to Housesteads Fort, rounded off by an afternoon visit to the incomparable Vindolanda – the only fort in the Hadrian’s Wall corridor undergoing complete excavation.

Mysteries of Hadrian’s Wall
A tour looking at some of the less well-known aspects of Hadrian’s Wall.   Starting at Housesteads, we walk to Sewingshields Crags and ponder its age-old links with King Arthur.  Further east, at Brocolitia, we view a Mithraic Temple to learn about the fascinating cult of Mithraism and its associations with ancient astrology. A short distance away, Limestone Corner captures a unique moment in time when the Romans were defeated by the hardness of the underlying rock. Finally, we end the day at Chesters Fort to hear about its unexpected archaeological finds.

Beyond Hadrian’s Wall 
If you are already familiar with Hadrian’s Wall, this tour will take you to less well-known but equally fascinating sites that lie beyond the Wall.   This absorbing guided tour will take you firstly to Burnswark – a prominent hill that once supported a sizeable Iron Age tribe. Here you will be able to clearly see the might of the Roman military machine in action.  After a brief visit to Birrens outpost fort, we head across country to Netherby Hall (site of the Roman fort of Exploratorum) and on to Bewcastle. This tiny settlement in the far north of England just oozes history. From being a Roman outpost fort (Fanum Cocidii), it became a Norman stronghold and then a nefarious base for the infamous Border Reivers.

Fishing at Warwick Hall for salmon, brown trout and grayling on the River Eden on the Warwick Hall beat offers a chance to experience classic British fishing at its best.

The Warwick Hall Beat is the most productive stretch of water on this beautiful English river with a good chance of catching salmon, brown trout or grayling according to the season.

Two miles of carefully tended banks make access to the river a pleasure, with good facilities for parking and a well kept loo. There are two comfortable fishing huts as well as a good tea room in the village for take away sandwiches and soup. Good cake too! Our village pub does an excellent lunch for those who like a proper break.

Fishing at Warwick Hall is divided into two beats: Top Beat and Park Beat. Fishing tenants take a beat for the day, then alternate if they are fishing more than one day at a time. Both beats are about a mile long, and share the quality fishing equally. Nick Marriner, the landlord, has changed the configuration of the beats in the past in order to keep a balance between the two. If the river changes structure, as it does every year when the winter floods come down, we’ll change them again.