Ambleside.

Ambleside is a village at the northern end of Windermere, in the English Lake District. The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England’s third-highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from here.

Today it is noted for its tourist industry and has many points of interest, such as Bridge House, St Marys Church and Master Amabilis Church.

Langdale & Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team is one of the busiest volunteer mountain rescue team nationally.

Ambleside to Grasmere (5.5 miles)

Starting our walk next to The Centre (St Marys Parish Church), we head west through the park and over the bridge (River Rothay), then turn right along the path (Video 2:10).  Turning left we head up the incline, and start our walk across fell paths.  As we gently climb we have some good views of Ambleside, and the fells ahead.  The path is well defined, heading towards Loughrigg Tarn.  Bearing right (Video 3:45) we approach the Tarn itself.  The path takes us around the eastern side.  About 200mtrs after passing white house (Video 5:20), we take the path on our right and the start of the climb up to Loughrigg Fell, and our summit point of 1089ft.  The views from the trig point (Video 6:30) confirms that we do not need to climb to 3000ft to gain a great vantage point.

Descending from the trig point, heading north, we have Grasmere Lake ahead of us.  Continuing down the path we bear left (Video 8:20) and start our walk along the western side of Grasmere Lake, through wooded areas and the lake side.  Now on a single track road, we arrive at Grasmere Village.  It is worth spending some time here to explore.

Grasmere.

Grasmere, these days is a tourist destination in the Lake District.  It is probably most famous for Dove Cottage, the home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and they called Grasmere “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found”

Grasmere to Ambleside (4.0 miles)

Heading west out of Grasmere and crossing the A591 (Video 12:00), we take the lane up to Dove Cottage, which we pass on our left.  Continuing up the road, and coming to a fork, we bear left heading up the lane and onto the Coffin Route, which is a path on the northern shaw of Rydal Water (Video 13:50).  Following the path, this eventually takes us to Rydal Hall and the picturesque bridge over Rydal Beck (Video 16:15).  Now following the path across the fields, eventually meeting up with the road back into Ambleside and the conclusion of our walk.