A retreat in the fells
Three-day retreats in a stone farmhouse — long walks, wood-fired food and evenings with nowhere to be. The starlings come most dusks; so do we.
The retreat
Murmur is a farmhouse, ten guests, and a valley that doesn't get a phone signal until you climb for it. We cook, we walk, we sit by the fire — and the days arrange themselves around weather and appetite rather than a schedule.
Come alone or bring someone quiet. Both work.
A day here
Held loosely, like everything else.
Out after breakfast, back when the valley says so. Boots by the door in every size we've ever been left.
Lunch is one pot, one loaf and whoever's back. Wood-fired, garden-fed, seconds assumed.
A book, a bath, the tarn if you're brave. The only rule is nobody has to join anything.
Dusk brings the starlings over the water, then supper, then the fire until the last person stops talking.
Stay
| Plan | Shared room £380 3 nights A twin with someone you came with — or a quiet stranger who'll become a Christmas card. | Most popular Own room £420 3 nights Your own bed, your own window on the fells, your own hour of silence. | Private hire £2,900 weekend The whole house for your own ten — families, book clubs, tired teams. |
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| All meals & walks | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Thursday–Sunday | ✓ | — | — |
| First choice of bath times | — | ✓ | — |
| Your dates, our cooking | — | — | ✓ |
| Sleeps 10 | — | — | ✓ |
| Get started | Book shared | Book a room | Ask about dates |
Guest book
Book
Retreats run Thursday to Sunday, most weeks of the year. Ten beds, and the fire's lit either way.
Visitors pick a room, a date and a time here, then leave their details.
Find us
The grey farmhouse past the second cattle grid — if you've reached the tarn, you've gone one field too far.