Muncaster Castle & Pennington Hotels Group

A Family owned and run historic Castle on the western coast of the Lake District, with a group of hotels and establishments throughout. Comprising of 3 hotels and a historic Inn we pride ourselves on great food and atmosphere for any occasion. This family derive their pedigree from Gamel de Pennington, who was a very considerable person, before and at the conquest as appears by several ancient rolls, registers, and records; from whom, the present Sir Joseph Pennington, is derived, in a lineal descent of numerous ancestors of note so quotes the author of The English Baronetage published in 1741. While there are numerous Gamels in Pennington history so it becomes difficult to know to which the above might refer, if the author of the English Baronetage is correct then the Penningtons were an important family in Cumberland before the Norman Conquest of 1066. Tracing the early family tree is difficult as few documents survive from this period, further complicated by reuse of popular ...