The Greystoke Castle Estate lies five miles west of Penrith on the north-eastern side of the Lake District National Park. Being only ten minutes drive from both the M6 motorway and the west coast main line, it is readily accessible despite its remote location.
The Estate covers some three thousand acres of very mixed terrain and rises to twelve hundred feet above sea-level. It was traditionally a sporting estate and deer park; much of the ten feet high dry-stone deer wall survives to this day.