Walking around Kinder Reservoir

Walking around Kinder Reservoir takes about 90 minutes and is the perfect short walk for a morning or an afternoon. Or, even better, stop halfway for a picnic.

It is not a flat walk and the views are fabulous and always changing as you circumnavigate the water.

Strongly recommended for cottage guests. But we often do it ourselves. I took this photo on Saturday afternoon.

Next availability is now the weekend of 17-18 September.

One weekend left in August . . .

Only one weekend left in August, 20th and 21st. Monday and Tuesday nights also available to make it a long weekend.

Availability this week, Tatton . . .

Bookings have been coming in fast, coinciding I imagine with the good weather. Heat wave predicted this week.

Still have Wed and Thurs nights available (20 and 21 July) which would suit anyone thinking of going to Tatton Flower Show (20-24 July).

Vacancies, well dressing . . .

Main changes to blog now complete.

Still have a vacancy for weekend of 22-24 July - this is the weekend of the Tatton Park Show . . .

http://events.tattonpark.org.uk/viewEvent.aspx?eid=53852&s=635987808000000000&e=635988672000000000

This weekend coming it's Hayfield's well dressing and flower festival . . .

http://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/events/High-Peak-Hayfield-Well-Dressing/details/?dms=3&venue=6060604&feature=1012&itemtype=436&uv=1&w=100%25&events=1

Changes . . .

I have started re-designing the blog so please bear with me. Information on the holiday cottage can either be found on the page tabs or older posts.

1. Welcome...

Farlands Holiday Cottage is a self-catering cottage in Hayfield (where the current BBC drama 'The Village' was filmed)  in the Peak District which sleeps up to 4 people. It is available for weekend breaks and longer stays. Please contact James Ellson on 07958 930049 or email ellson3@hotmail.com for further details.

A typical stay at Farlands Cottage will have the following highlights:-

• a warm welcome from James (and possibly a tour of the smallholding);
• a great walk from the door, and either lunch in a local pub or a picnic on the hill;
• tea in front of a roaring open fire (if it's cold) or tea outside the cottage (if it's warm);
• looking for (and hopefully finding!) eggs from our chickens;
• a meal in the local pub and a star-lit walk home back to the Cottage.

Farlands Holiday Cottage (arrowed)

This blog gives further details:-
1. Welcome...
2. What's new at Farlands Holiday Cottage?
(updated July 2016)
3. Basics...and a bit of luxury...
4. Things to do...
5. Walking - including Accompanied Walks
6. Walking - have you done the Farlands 5?
7. Looking for something a bit different? - why not try a Smallholding Tour?
8. Our guiding principles
9. We are (effectively) zero-consumers of non-renewable energy...
10. Events in 2014

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Farlands Holiday Cottage is attached to Farlands House, and is part of a smallholding of several acres. Please also see the Far Lands blog http://jamesellson.blogspot.com/which describes life on the smallholding.

Farlands (arrowed) and Kinder Reservoir

2. What's new at Farlands Holiday Cottage?

This photo is from one of our recent walks - it shows Kinder reservoir and not far below it is Farlands Cottage . . .

I run accompanied walks if you want some help with route-finding, carrying your gear or just want a gentle commentary on the local landscape - see section 5 or email for further details.

I also run smallholding tours and fruit and nut tree tours - see section 6 or email for further details.

Cup of tea outside the cottage?

The local heron (in river - 2 mins walk)

Farlands