Ambleside

Our road to Rydal lay through Ambleside, which is certainly a very pretty town, and looks cheerfully on a sunny day.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

Our road to Rydal lay through Ambleside, which is certainly a very pretty town, and looks cheerfully in a sunny day.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Our road to Rydal lay through Ambleside, which is certainly a very pretty town, and looks cheerfully in a sunny day.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Gray laid down the vital tour and stopping points: first Ullswater and Derwentwater, then past Helvellyn to Grasmere and Ambleside.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

All the glamour of glamping can't match the romance you'll find as master of your manor in a wet field near Ambleside.

Glamping is not camping 2011

Ambleside Tetbury 01666 500857, amblesidetetbury.co.uk, doubles £80 per night B&B This refurbished cottage, in a hamlet located about a mile from Tetbury's centre, has two double bedrooms with king-sized beds, flat-screen TVs, and organic breakfasts.

My favourite bike ride – the Cotswolds 2011

I'm sure that the Lake District is actually lovely, and I know that because of time constraints, we simply drove the 'tourist route' through Ambleside, Windermere and so on.

Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

In this exhibition you feel a shock of pleasure when an artist employs a style quite at odds with the Claude-glass view: the almost abstract landscapes of Francis Towne, or William Havell's The Beck at Ambleside After Much Rain, its jumping waters filling the frame.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

I'm sure that the Lake District is actually lovely, and I know that because of time constraints, we simply drove the 'tourist route' through Ambleside, Windermere and so on.

In Which Dungeekin is Bill Bryson... Dungeekin 2009

Stock up with provisions at Lucy's Specialist Grocers in Ambleside, a marvellous delicatessen specialising in Cumbrian produce, from Windermere char to Cumberland sausage and damson gin to wash it all down.

The 10 best waterside campsites 2011