Useful links
Activities and weather
- Kendal Climbing Wall
- Mountain biking in Grizedale
- BBC weather (Ambleside)
- Met Office mountain forecast (Lake District)
- Parkrun (Ambleside)
- Parkrun (Newby Bridge)
- Various activities (“what’s on”)
- Beatrix Potter’s Hilltop Farm
Places to eat and drink and activities in Coniston
- Dow Crag and Goats Water (fell walk)
- Coniston Old Man (fell walk)
- Steam Yacht Gondola
- The Black Bull (Coniston)
- The Sun Inn (Coniston)
- Coniston museum
- Brantwood (John Ruskin’s home)
- 4WD tours over Walna Scar
- Coniston 14 road race (March annually)
- Lakeland 50 and 100 ultra marathon (starts and finishes in Coniston, July annually)
Places to eat and drink and activities in Chapel Stile and Langdale Valleys
- Walks around Langdale
- Old Dungeon Ghyll
- Wainwright’s Inn (Chapel Stile)
- Britannia Inn (Elterwater)
- The Three Shires Inn (Little Langdale)
- Local road running races
Places to eat and drink and activities in Ambleside
- Walks around Ambleside
- Lucy’s restaurant
- Cinema and cafe
- Great North Swim (June annually, Lake Windermere)
Places to eat and drink and activities in Grasmere
- Walks around Grasmere
- Hiring rowing boats on Lake Grasmere
- Grasmere restaurants, cafes and pubs
- Grasmere Gingerbread Shop
- Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage
- Rydal Mount
