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Established in 1983, Nab Cottage is an accredited English language school and community in the centre of the Lake District National Park, an area of outstanding beauty and tranquillity in Cumbria in north-west England. It is unique as an English language school because students and teachers live together and study together. We take a maximum of 20 students in the school at any time and there is continuous interaction in English. Our students are all adults and come from all over the world.


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We are under 2 hours by taxi from Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds/Bradford, Blackpool and Newcastle airports. We can arrange taxi collections. There are also direct train connections from all these airports to Windermere, our local station. From Windermere it is 6km to Nab Cottage and a direct bus journey. It is also possible to take a bus from the airports to Ambleside, 3km from Nab Cottage.


School / Office Address: Rydal, Ambleside
Cumbria
England
UK / GB
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