Short stay: Birkdale House, Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District, UK By Paul Johnson on Mar 14, 2022 in Accommodation, Europe, Family Travel, Featured, Leisure Travel, Regions, Speciality Travel, United Kingdom, Vacation Rentals, Western Europe

Birkdale House is a large Victorian house set on the 470-acre Matson Ground Estate close to Bowness-on-Windermere in the southern part of the Lake District National Park. Home to a number of holiday cottages, this is very much the estate’s ‘flagship’ luxury property – as you will soon see – which opened in 20220 and is arguably one of the most prestigious holiday rentals in the whole of the Lake District.

The welcome

Like many self-catering properties in the UK nowadays (or ‘vacation rentals’ as they are referred to in other parts of the world), Birkdale House operates on a self check-in basis which makes for a very simple arrival process.

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