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Bed And Breakfast In Shap
New Ing Lodge offers B & B and dorm style rooms in the Eastern Fells on the edge of the Lake District and the Eden Valley in Cumbria. We are positioned on Wainwright's Coast to Coast and the Westmoreland Way, and are easily accessible for the Eastern Fells of the Lake District, The Howgills and The Pennines. New Ing Farm was a working farm up until the late 1980's but as far as records can be found, it has also been a Coach House/ Guest House since 1820.
Our B&B rooms are located on the 1st and 2nd floor at New Ing Lodge. Each room has local information and tea and coffee facilities available. We offer a range of activities from our Lodge. We provide maps and details for walkers and mountain bikes. Bikes for hire with a special rate for residents and a guide if wanted.We have an orienteering course outside our back door and one that takes in many sights of Shap.
More Information About Shap
Shap is a linear village located amongst fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria, England. The village lies along the A6 road and is near to the M6 motorway. It is situated 10 miles from Penrith and about 15 miles from Kendal. Description The village has four pubs, a small supermarket, a fish & chip shop, an ethnic restaurant, Mango, (Mexican, Italian, Turkish and Caribbean), a butcher's shop, a primary school, newsagents, café, ceramic art studio called Edge Ceramics, a joint police and fire station, bank, a shoe shop and both Anglican and Methodist churches. The West Coast Main Line, opened by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway on 17 December 1846, runs along the eastern edge of the village but Shap railway station was closed in 1968, though there have been recent calls for its re-opening. To the southern end of the village is a factory producing sausages; other major employers in the area are the Hanson and Corus limestone quarries and the RMC Group Shap Granite quarries. Until the late 1990s there was a small factory making shoes in the centre of the village. Although Shap is a small village, technically it is a market town with a charter dating from the 17th century. The parish was, between 1905 and 1935, administered by an urban district council. At one time, the granite works (which are situated about a mile outside the village) was in itself a separate community, with its own Co-op store. The civil parish of Shap (formerly Shap Urban Parish) includes the hamlet of Keld and parts of the granite works and Corus limestone works. The parish shares a joint parish council with Shap Rural. Shap is on the route of the Coast to Coast Walk. Some of the scenes in the feature film Withnail and I, which is set in nearby Penrith, were filmed in and around Shap. Sleddale Hall, the filming location for Uncle Monty's cottage Crow Crag, is located near Wet Sleddale Reservoir. Dialect The people of Shap speak a variant of the Penrithian dialect, which is itself a variant of the Cumbrian dialect spoken around the Penrith and Eden district area.
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