Places to Visit
Being at the heart of the Lake District National Park, Ambleside is the perfect base to start your adventure. We are very much about ‘the outdoors’, but there are also a great deal of indoor options too, should the weather be unfavourable … though note, as Alfred Wainwright said “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing”
There is a Tourist Information Centre in Ambleside
IN AND AROUND AMBLESIDE
- Hill Top, Beatrix Potter’s House, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hill-top
- Bridge House, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ambleside/features/bridge-house---a-17th-century-survivor
- Hayes Garden World, https://www.hayesgardenworld.co.uk/
- Lake Cruises from Waterhead, https://www.windermere-lakecruises.co.uk/
- Beatrix Potter Gallery, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/beatrix-potter-gallery-and-hawkshead
- Go Ape Grizedale, https://goape.co.uk/locations/grizedale
- Grizedale Forest, https://www.forestryengland.uk/grizedale
- Wray Castle, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wray-castle
- Ambleside Climbing Wall, https://www.amblesideadventure.co.uk/ambleside-wall/
- Brantwood, http://www.brantwood.org.uk/
- Armitt Museum, http://armitt.com/armitt_website/
- Rydal Mount & Gardens, http://www.rydalmount.co.uk/
- Stagshaw Garden, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ambleside/features/escape-to-stagshaw-gardens
- Ambleside & Grasmere Parks, https://www.southlakeland.gov.uk/leisure-culture-and-events/parks-and-open-spaces/parks-in-south-lakeland/ambleside-and-grasmere-parks/
- Old Courthouse Gallery, https://www.oldcourthousegallery.com/
- Galava Roman Fort, https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/ambleside-roman-fort/
- Old Laundry Theatre, https://www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk/
- Zeferellis Cinema, https://www.zeffirellis.com/film quality. (weekends only in winter)
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