Location is superb for walking around Ullswater. Don't need to walk all 20 miles, as you can walk 7 miles to Howtown and catch the Steamer ferry back to Glenridding. A beautiful area, but just to clarify, the views are awesome in the surrounding area, not from the CL. Pitches are on gravel, under huge trees - red wood pine type (not sure exactly what, but all we could see out of our window was a massive trunk!). Over the wall was main road, which was popular with motorbike tourers, but quiet at night. CL is in grounds of big old house that belongs to Bolton School - where the private kids do their school trips. We were visiting in school holidays so all was quiet.