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Afternoon tea served every day

Traditional afternoon tea in a castle : What could be more quintessentially English? Tea in the garden with views to the Dales and Lakeland Fells or in front of a roaring fire.

Enjoy freshly cut sandwiches, warm scones with Somerset clotted cream and homemade jam, exquisite cakes and pastries in the beautiful surroundings of Augill Castle. Add a glass of champagne to make it extra special.

Daily 3pm - 6pm. Advance booking essential as our cakes are freshly made.

Afternoon tea £18 per person.

Champagne tea £25.

Children 12 and under £9.

 

 

Go to the movies in a castle.

In 2013 we launch our Augill cinema club.

Enjoy a two course supper in the castle dining room with a a glass of wine, then relax in our vintage 12 seater cinema with popcorn and snacks for a film.

What better way to spend an evening with friends or making new ones? Perfect for girls' or boys' nights out, parties or just as an excuse to get out.

 

Film, supper, glass of wine, popcorn all for £20 per person.

 

Numbers limited to 12 per screening. Booking essential. Call us on 01768 341937 to book your seat.

 

Spring film & supper programme 

Thursday 18 April

Notes on a Scandal (15) a powerful tale of obsession and infatuation and emotional blackmail starring Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett & Bill Nighy

Thursday 2 May

The Help (12) an inspiring tale of the struggle of black servants against prejudice in 1960s USA with Emma Stone, Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer

Thursday 23 May

The Last King of Scotland (15) a thought provoking take on Idi Amin's reign of terror in Uganda seen through the eyes of his young physician, starring Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy

Thursday 20 June

The Artist (PG) set in 1927, a cinematic triumph and a silent tribute to the golden age of cinema - perfect in our 1920s inspired deco cinema.

 

 

Latest News

 
 

  • Augill Castle launches the Augill Academy, an exciting range of courses and events bringing a new take on life on an english country estate.

  • Augill Castle has been named number two in the Times' list of twenty best castles to stay in the UK. Not bad for a little family pile!

  • Augill Castle hosted the final of its Leading Hotels of Cumbria Young Chef of the Year competition in February. The competition encourages young people in the Eden Valley to get involved with local businesses and to see that there are quality careers on their doorstep. The castle has teamed up with some of the best small hotels in Cumbria to offer this exciting competition for fourteen and fifteen year olds.

  • Augill Castle has retained a gold award for the fifth year from the Cumbria Business Environment network for our efforts to green our business. Not always the most straightforward process.

  • Augill was a shortlisted finalist for Cumbria Tourism's Sustainability Tourism award. Another feather in our environmental cap.

  • Augill Castle has been awarded a silver award for environmental sustainability from the Green Tourism Business Scheme.

  • The Lake District is Britain's favourite holiday and short break destination. Voted as Britain's best destination in the British Travel Awards, the lakes has cemented itself as the nation's favourite place to be. The Lake District boasts some of the country's finest country house hotels, top class restaurants and award winning pubs as well as a world class landscape. But Britain's foremost national park isn't sitting on its laurels and aims to be Britain's adventure capital.

  • Augill Castle is again among the best Lake District hotels having re-secured its place in the Good Hotel Guide for 2013. The guide, widely regarded as the bible of the hotel industry contains a selection of the finest hotels in the Lakes and Yorkshire as well as from the rest of the country. The castle, a boutique hotel of the year nominee at this year's British Travel Awards, has been in the guide since 2003, barring one year when it was dropped due to lack of reports.

  • The castle is proud to be able to sponsor and host a Lets Get Cooking cookery club in association with Warcop Church of England Primary School. The Let's Get Cooking initiative aims to help families to cook and eat better by encouraging children to cook. Supported by the Princes Trust amongst others, the intiative sits well alongside Augill Castle's existing and very popular children's cookery school, Little Augill Cooks launched in Spring 2008.

  • The castle is now WiFi enabled. Guests can now access the internet at Augill. It doesn't work everywhere, but it does where it matters. A Victorian castle and the internet are not the happiest of bedfellows but work is progressing on some pretty nifty ways of extending the coverage and we hope to have WiFi throughout the castle by the end of 2012.

  • Brides Magazine has voted Augill Castle one of the UKs 100 hottest wedding venues for a third year in succession. The castle is already one of the Lake District's top wedding venues but Bride's endorsement puts it up with some of the leading British wedding venues.

  • A popular Radio 2 personality says Augill Castle is her top family friendly hotel. The Steve Wright in the afternoon presenter and eco-champion Janey Lee Grace says she immediately relaxes when she walks through the front door of the award winning castle, knowing that her children are going to be happy, entertained and relaxed themselves. Janey first visited the family friendly castle in October 2008 to officially launch the castle's ever popular children's cookery school, Little Augill Cooks.

  • The best Yorkshire and Lake District hotels are joining forces to offer visitors to the north of England a new way to seek out the best places to stay and eat. Staywithourfriends.com will be a collection of the finest individual, owner-operated  hotels, inns and guest accommodation such as Augill Castle across the north of England all willing to recommend each other and work together to promote England's north as a top class destination.

 

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