Overwater Equestrian
Innate Riding Centre
at Stockdale by Overwater

Horse Riding Holidays
The Lake District, nr Keswick,
Cumbria, England, UK
The most beautiful corner of England.

Caldbeck began as a hospice for travellers built by monks from the priory at Carlisle.  Then in 1112 the first part of 
St Kentigern's Church was built.  It is built on the site of an original Church from the sixth Century. On the riverbank behind the Church is St Mungo's well, a spring made holy by Kentigern.  The churchyard is the resting place of Mary Harrison, (the Beauty of Buttermere), and John Peel the famous huntsman who died in 1854, aged 78.

St Kentigern's Church
Caldbeck

The Old Bobbin Mill in Caldbeck

Priest's Mill is an old watermill built by a rector of Caldbeck on the riverbank just below the Church.  The mill is now home to a restaurant, and various interesting shops.  The award winning restoration of the mill was completed in 1986. The only machinery left is the 14ft diameter waterwheel which is now restored to working order. The inside wheel pit area displays a local collection of old rural implements.  From 1702 to 1933 the mill was used as a stone-grinding corn mill. After that it was mainly used as a sawmill and joiner's workshop until 1965, when floods caused the mill dam to be destroyed.

Hugh Walpole on Uldale:
''You and I have this country in our blood. You don't know what that means now, but you will one day. Everything you ever do will be affected by this country, and however far you travel you'll never find any other country so beautiful nor any other that's in your bones as this one is. You'll come back to it. Be sure of that.''

Uldale

Please contact us

Email - Eleanor@overwaterequestrian.co.uk

Telephone - 016973 71217

Eleanor and James Irving
Stockdale, Uldale, Wigton, Cumbria  CA7 1HL