We offer comfortable accommodation with facilities for guests to self cater. This has been our family home for 30 years, and now that the children have left home we thought the best way to ensure they don’t come back is to offer their rooms to passing walkers and cyclists! There are four cats in the house, and a motley collection of hens, ducks and geese outside. Sadly we do not feel able to accommodate dogs. Hopefully there will be fresh eggs available for your breakfast.

Perfect location for Coast to Coast and C2C bed & breakfast Cumbria

We are located in Moor Row, seven miles from the start of the Coast to Coast walk in St.Bees, or if you are one of the 1% who walk east to west, seven miles from the finish. We are just under four miles from the start of the C2C cycle route (C2C is short for Sea to Sea incidentally)

We are on the original route of the Coast to Coast through the village, indeed our property gets an honourable mention on page 7 of Wainwright’s first guidebook to the route.

“when this goes over the railway take a path to the left of the line
past two houses and a graveyard of old cars”

We are the first of the two houses; the graveyard is long gone. Our house was built in the 1850’s by the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont railway company. The company is also long gone.  The railway went in the 1990’s and is now the C2C. We are unique in that we are on both the original Coast to Coast walk, and the Sea to Sea cycle route. The two routes converge briefly through the village.

We have one double room available, plus a single. The single is located in an attic room which is sometimes used as a sewing workroom. There is a lovely bathroom for your sole use, as well as a cosy sitting room available with a TV. We have two kitchens in which you can prepare a meal, make hot drinks, your breakfast and generally feel at home.

Breakfast is on a ‘self-prepared’ basis in that we provide the ingredients for you to use as you wish. Guests are welcome to prepare an evening meal in the kitchen, but we do not provide ingredients for this. Check out details about breakfast and more here.

Various local takeaways will deliver.

There is a good powerful shower in the bathroom. We’d like to think if you arrive wet, muddy and bedraggled (this is Cumberland in the summer after all) that you will depart clean, dry and optimistic.

We can offer a pick-up and drop-off service for £5 between Whitehaven, St. Bees and Ennerdale Bridge. This would include being taken to a local pub for an evening meal if you wish. We can transport up to three bikes on our carrier and have secure bike storage available. 

The Unknown Hikers, (or why you are given a postcard.)

Many years ago on a wet, windy and dark night there was a knock on our front door. A very bedraggled and miserable looking young couple stood there.

“Are you the B&B?”

“No sorry, it was next door, but they closed down and moved away.”

At this the girl burst into tears.

“Come in, we’ve no spare beds but the sofa is comfortable and there’s room on the floor.”

An hour later they were showered and fed, in warm clothes sitting in front of the fire. Clothes were in the drier, boots and rucksack contents happily dripping in the kitchen.

The following morning they were gone before we got up, the only sign of their visit being a £10 note (which we hadn’t  asked for.)

I often wondered what happened to them. Did they make it to Robin Hood’s Bay, or catch the first train from Whitehaven back home? Overnight I’d decided I was going to give them a postcard to post back to us to let us know, but they were gone.

So before you leave in the morning we will give you a postcard, stamped and addressed, for you to post back here, be it from Robin Hood’s Bay, Kirkby Stephen, or, perish the thought, St Bees train station. There is a board in the kitchen where the cards are displayed.

And should you be that couple, do let us know what happened……