Holiday Homes in Cleator

A small village on the River Ehen in west Cumbria, Cleator is best known today to the many walkers who pass through it on Wainwright's Coast to Coast route. It is an honest, unpretentious former iron-mining village rather than a tourist destination in its own right, but its real value lies in its position, right on the western threshold of the Lake District fells.

Cleator's story is bound up with the iron-mining boom of the nineteenth century, which drew a large Irish workforce to the area and is reflected in landmarks such as the Roman Catholic church of St Mary, built in 1872. For walkers, the village is a welcome staging post: the Coast to Coast passes through on its way to the climb over Dent Fell and the hidden valley of Nannycatch, heading towards Ennerdale Bridge and the lake at Ennerdale Water beyond.

As a base, Cleator suits those who want quiet, good-value accommodation close to the western fells, especially walkers tackling the early stages of the Coast to Coast or exploring beautiful, peaceful Ennerdale. The coast at Whitehaven and St Bees is close by too. For a no-frills base on the doorstep of the wild western Lakes, choose one of our Cleator holiday homes.