Attractions

Silecroft Golf Club	Eskdale	Whicham valley	View from Corney Fell

Black Combe House is only 5 minutes from the beach, the golf club, an equestrian centre , nature reserve and beautiful countryside. Here, where the mountains do reach down and touch the sea, time passes wonderfully slowly.

The coast line is a magnet for all kinds of people. Quiet strollers hand-in-hand, or families with a dog or two, kite-flying enthusiasts mastering the wind and sand-yachters waiting patiently for acres of smooth sand to harden into a runway.

Not far from Black Combe House, you can catch a train and travel along the coast both North and South. A delightful way to relax and enjoy the view.

For those keen to capture the subtle colours of Black Combe Country, there's endless scope for painters and photographers, and if contours are your challenge, climb Black Combe and wish for more time in this barely-discovered corner of Cumbria.

Things to enjoy:

· "A Beckside Circular to Black Combe" - lovely walks
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.richardson/favourite_walks/fw0004_beckside-blackcombe/01-becksidefarm.html

· Golf at Silecroft (on the coast) and Eskdale( "A Jewel in the Western Lakes")

. Pony trekking at Murthwaite Green Trekking Centre
www.murthwaitegreen.co.uk

· Cumbrian Coastal Path
www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/cumbriacoastal.html

· Fell-Running
www.bcrunners.org.uk/index.htm
www.davidhalllakedistrictwalks.co.uk/20050422/MAP.htm

· Biking
www.bikeit.eclipse.co.uk/localrides/ride1/26.htm

· Watersports with waterskiing-lessons available.
www.phwatersports.moonfruit.com/

· Kite-flying

· Sand-yachting.

· Photography

· Canoeing

· Bird-watching at the RSPB's Hodbarrow Nature Reserve

· Painting

· Fishing - coarse, fly and sea.

· Beaches - miles of unspoilt sand and shingle