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Special Events and packages in 2012
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- Traditional afternoon tea in a castle : What could be more quintessentially English?
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Enjoy the decadence of freshly cut sandwiches, warm scones with clotted cream and homemade jam, exquisite cakes and pastries in the beautiful surroundings of Augill Castle. Daily 3pm - 6pm. advance booking essential. Full afternoon tea £18 per person. Champagne tea £25.
Grab a school holiday bargain
Book either the Little Castle or Stable House family estate houses at Augill Castle and get seven nights for the price of five! That's a saving of £560!
For the price of five nights (£1400) you'll get seven nights accommodation including breakfast for a family of up to two adults and two children worth £1960.
Each house offers two double or twin en suite bedrooms plus a galley kitchen as well as the usual full run of the castle.
The offer is valid during February half term, Easter holidays and throughout June, July and August.
Offer limited to one week per month per house subject to availability, bookings must be paid for in full at the time of booking.
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- Ever wondered what it takes to be a Bond girl?
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Here's your chance to find out. Augill has teamed up with Yorkshire-based Thrills & Skills for Life to host the Bond Girl Challenge - how to survive outdoors, shoot, abseil the tower, dress to kill and mix a cocktail, all before dinner and a great night's sleep in one of our fabulous rooms - with or without your own 007.
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Ideal for hen parties, weddings or just a great girl's weekend away.
Latest News
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Augill Castle launches its Young Chef of the Year competition encouraging 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.
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Augill Castle has retained a gold award for the fourth year from the Cumbria Business Environment network for our efforts to green our business. Not always the most straightforward process.
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Augill was a shortlisted finalist for Cumbria Tourism's Sustainability Tourism award. Another feather in our environmental cap. The overall winner was Elder Grove guesthouse in Ambleside who may have clinched the prize by making their own marmalade!
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The Lake District is Britain's favourite holiday and short break destination. Voted as Britain's best destination in the British Travel Awards 2008, 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.
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Augill Castle is again among the best Lake District hotels having re-secured its place in the Good Hotel Guide for 2012. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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