Building Name

Hotel Guerness Spur Haweswater

Date
1936 - 1937
Street
Guerness Spur
District/Town
Haweswater, Bampton by Penrith
County/Country
Cumbria, England
Client
Manchester Corporation
Work
New Build

The Haweswater Hotel, built in 1937 and situated on the shores of Haweswater is the only building in the valley. Created by Manchester Waterworks, Haweswater is the highest lake in the Lake District at 240 metres above sea level and the 4th deepest at 57 metres. It is the most easterly and the least developed of all the lakes and was originally two small lakes, High Water and Low Water. These were joined together when the village of Mardale Green was flooded to create Haweswater. Prior to the valley being flooded in 1935 all the farms and dwellings of the villages of Mardale Green and Measand were demolished as was the centuries old Dun Bull Hotel at Mardale Green. Manchester Corporation built a new road along the eastern side of the lake to replace the flooded highway lower in the valley, and the Haweswater Hotel was constructed midway down the length of the reservoir as a replacement for Dun Bull Hotel.

Reference           Builder 6 March 1936 Page 509 and 510. Plans approved by Manchester Waterworks Committee