The_Traveller's_Rest,_Grasmere

The Traveller's Rest, Grasmere

The Traveller's Rest, Grasmere

Hotel in Cumbria, England

The Traveller's Rest is a hotel and public house in Grasmere, Cumbria, England. Located on the eastern side of the A591, it is a Grade II listed building dating to the 16th century.[1]

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An old coaching inn at the foot of Dunmail Raise, the building is two storeys, roughcast over stone rubble with a slate roof. It is in two blocks, stepped down the hillside. The upper block has four 16-paned sash windows on the ground floor and two 12-paned sashes above. The lower block has two doors with modern porches, six sashes on the ground floor and five above, mostly 16-paned.[1]

The pub has one of the highest elevations in England, at 1,475 feet (450 m),[2] about 250 feet (76 m) lower than Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire.

As of 2010, the pub was owned by the Jennings Brewery.

  • The pub's sign in 2010

References

  1. [1]
    Historic England. "The Travellers Rest, Grasmere (1271973)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  2. [2]
    The complete pocket-guide to Europe, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1913), p. 50
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