Keswick Tourist Information Centre refurbished

World famous adventurer Leo Houlding will be in Keswick on Monday 17 May to officially reopen the town’s Moot Hall Information Centre after a major refurbishment.

Supported by the Northwest Regional Development Agency the improvement and development project is a reinforcement of the National Park Authority’s commitment to ensuring the Keswick centre continues to provide the very best possible standards of service to its thousands of visitors and local customers.

Leo Houlding, a Lake District resident in Staveley, near Windermere, will perform the public reopening ceremony outside the building at 3pm.

The key changes to the building will be seen on the first floor, which has been turned into a “hub” to help advertise and promote Cumbria as the nation’s adventure capital. Visitors will be able to book onto a wide variety of outdoor action activities.

“We do hope the public – especially our local residents – will want to come along and help us celebrate this important event in the history of Moot Hall,” said National Park Head of Information Services Tim Haley.

“Moot Hall is really important to us as a vital source of information for all of our Keswick area visitors. But is also plays an important part in the Keswick area community, as a venue for local events, and it also acts as a general meeting place for a variety of local groups and organisations.

“I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved with this refurbishment and I’m excited about the role Moot Hall will now play in promoting the adventure activity side of holidays in Cumbria in general and around Keswick in particular,” he added.

The new and improved Moot Hall Information Centre is the latest in a series of major investments made by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) to improve the provision of visitor information across Cumbria and the whole of the Northwest.

Nick Brookes-Sykes, Director of Tourism at the NWDA said: “Our aim is to have a modern network of well located visitor information centres across the whole of the Northwest. This investment in Moot Hall TIC will ensure it is able to provide an excellent visitor experience and signposting service, not only for Keswick, but also across the Lake District and Cumbria.”

Keswick Information Centre is open seven days a week between 9.30am and 5.30pm offering advice on what to do in the Lake District, where to stay, and how best to enjoy the national park.

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