Grasmere

Buses run regularly from Keswick, Windermere and Ambleside.

Grasmere is a very small village and very easy to get around on foot. However, during the summer months it can be very crowded with coach-tour parties. This can make it difficult to find a parking space for those on driving holidays around the Lake District.

• Dove Cottage

  phone: +44 15394 35544
  address: Dove Cottage, LA22 9SH
  Home to William Wordsworth

• Walk around the small, pretty lake.

• Greenhead Ghyll

  address: Grasmere Shop, LA22 9SW

• Easdale Tarn

• The Coffin Trail

• Co-op Supermarket

  address: 229 Broadgate
  Small supermarket.

• Sam Read's Bookshop

  phone: +44 15394 35374
  address: Broadgate House, Ambleside, LA22 9SY

• Heaton Cooper Studio

  phone: +44 15394 35280
  Art gallery and shop established Alfred Heaton Cooper in 1905, and still run by his descendants.

• Grasmere Gingerbread

  phone: +44 15394 35428
  address: Church Cottage, Grasmere, Ambleside, LA22 9SW

• Faeryland

  address: Red Bank Road
  Tea garden and boat hire. They blend their own tea.

• Thorney How Independent Hostel Grasmere

  phone: +44 15394 35597
  address: LA22 9QW
  One of first YHA hostels in England, now an independent hostel since 2011, owned and run by Taylor and Carolyn Nuttall who live on site. Thorney How is the small outcrop in the grounds of this Grade 2 listed old farmhouse. There are a number of small bedrooms as well as more traditional bunk rooms. The hostel can sleep up to 50 people if the bunk room dormitories are full. Coffee, tea, cakes and drinks are part a drop-in cafe. Also on offer eve meals and breakfasts if use of the self-catering kitchen is too much. Local beers abound including the regular draft beer as part of the hostel licence.

• Daffodil Hotel

  phone: +44 15394 63550
  A 4 star hotel with onsite spa and restaurant.

• RockwoodIs an example of a fine traditionally built lakeland residence, which sleeps 10-12 and is 10 mins quiet walk from the centre of the village.

• Heron Beck Guest House

  address: Off Keswick Road, Grasmere, Ambleside
  4-star accommodation, views over private gardens reaching out to the nearby fells.

• Northwest to Keswick
• South to Ambleside and Windermere
• Northeast to Penrith