Lowbridge Estate

The Estate has become a haven for red squirrels with a very active policy of conservation including the extensive planting of red squirrel friendly larch trees and the reintroduction of pine-martins.

[1] The Lowbridge Estate lies six miles north of Kendal in the Lake District National Park, England, off the A6 road.

ft.) which was rebuilt between 1833 and 1837 by Richard Fothergill II in the then-fashionable Romantic cottage orné style.

Lowbridge Cottage is a former Bastle House, retaining the arrow-slits at first floor level considered essential for defence at the time of the Border Reivers.

Also included were a population of red deer, a grouse moor, and shooting rights.