{"id":514,"date":"2017-09-29T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldlh.cottage-search.com\/blog\/jenkins-crag-stagshaw-gardens\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:12:59","slug":"jenkins-crag-stagshaw-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/jenkins-crag-stagshaw-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenkins Crag &#038; Stagshaw Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenkins Crag &amp; Stagshaw Gardens are both a lovely woodland walk, which you can do straight from White Cross Bay, or Brockhole visitor centre, just down the road. A great way to leave the car behind and have a few hours gentle walk with lovely views.\u00a0Combine it with a boat trip, and a bite to eat and you&#8217;ve got the makings of a great day out.\u00a0You can choose between a longer walk, from Brockhole or White Cross Bay, or indeed Waterhead boat landings, or a shorter walk from the boat landings and straight through the woods and up.<\/p>\n<p>The longer walk: Cross the road from Brockhole entrance and look out for \u2018Mirk Lane\u2019 turn left and follow the National Trust signs to \u2018Jenkyns Crag\u2019 For a map have a look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakedistrict.gov.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0006\/365172\/Brockhole-Walking-Leaflet-Waterhead-Jenkin-Crag.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. This walk is around 5 km or 3 miles, and will take between 2 and 3 hours, plus a boat trip or walk back along the main road.<\/p>\n<p>For a shorter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/ambleside\/trails\/ambleside-champion-tree-trail\">journey<\/a> up to Jenkins Crag, start from the boat landings around Waterhead, cross the main road (carefully!) and you&#8217;ll see a signpost to Stagshaw Gardens.\u00a0There&#8217;s also a very small National Trust car park here.\u00a0 Head into Skelghyll Woods and you&#8217;ll find a magical walk through ancient woodlands,\u00a0 discover some of the tallest trees in Cumbria and\u00a0 visit a fantastic early summer garden. The views at the Crag across Windermere are breathtaking in all seasons.\u00a0This walk is only 1.5 k and will take about an hour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hints &amp; Tip:<\/strong> You can either walk back the same way, or along the main road, or even better catch a boat from Waterhead back to Brockhole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we like it:<\/strong> Easy-ish walks and great views, plus a chance for a coffee and cake either at Brockhole cafe, or any of the fabulous cafes at Waterhead boat landings, and for a special treat, the Waterhead hotel bar and bistro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenkins Crag &amp; Stagshaw Gardens are both a lovely woodland walk, which you can do straight from White Cross Bay, or Brockhole visitor centre, just down the road. A great way to leave the car behind and have a few hours gentle walk with lovely views.\u00a0Combine it with a boat trip, and a bite to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakedistrictlodgeholidays.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}