Luxury dog-friendly hotels in Cumbria, United Kingdom

The mountainous county of Cumbria, which borders Scotland in the far north-west of England, is where you’ll find the UK’s most dramatic landscapes and an embarrassment of natural beauty spots: the Unesco-protected Lake District, bits of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the North Pennines and Lake Windermere, to name just a few. Its grassy fells, moody crags and lush lakes will raise the pulse of hardy hikers and adventure seekers; literature lovers can worship Wordsworth and beatify Beatrix and, for the rest of us, there’s the food – Cumbria is home to a treasure trove of culinary hotspots and a cavalcade of country pubs, where even the most die-hard Johnny Town-Mouse will go gooey for the sticky toffee pudding…