The Cross Keys is a family run Hotel, which has undergone a major refurbishment and modernisation programme.
The Hotel is surrounded by a wealth of history, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, such as Leighton Moss, and a wide range of visitor attractions.
If you would like to see the Lakes in the comfort of a guided tour we can provide this for you in association with 'Country Cars', Milnthorpe's local taxi service. Running a six-seater MPV, they can escort you on a set tour of the wonderful Lake District or you can choose your own route around the areas you particularly wish to see.
Within walking distance there is Milnthorpe's new Millenium Square, the estate of Dallam Towers, the Kent estuary with its wealth of wildlife, to name but a few atractions.
Milnthorpe has a long history - its busy Friday street market in the Square dates from 1334. The village's heyday was from the middle of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries when many of the buildings in the centre of the village (now a conservation area) were completed including the present Cross Keys Hotel. When the turnpike road between Kendal and Lancaster was constructed through the village nearly two hundred years ago Milnthorpe became an important staging post and the Cross Keys gained a fine reputation as a coaching inn with stabling for 36 horses (and receiving guests of no lesser importance than a Tsar of Russia and a Queen from Austria) and a comfortable place to stay - a reputation which still continues today.
Milnthorpe has surroundings of peaceful tranquility. The River Bela winds lazily through parkland to the Kent Estuary at Sandside, where the dramatic expanse of Morecambe Bay has a backdrop of brooding Lakeland Fells. At Arnside, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, there are many walks through wooded hills and along the rocky shore to enjoy.
For more details, please contact The Cross Keys.
The Cross Keys Hotel
1 Park Road, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, LA7 7AB
Tel: 015395 62115 Fax: 015395 62446
Email: stay@thecrosskeyshotel.co.uk
