Windermere

Car

A591 leads to/from the main M6 north-south motorway.

Train

Windermere is at the end of a branch line from Oxenholme on the main West Coast route from London to Scotland. Trains run every hour or so.
The train station is above the town, a few minutes walk from the centre. The station forecourt has bus stops with frequent service into the town and to
Bowness-on-Windermere and Ambleside, and a taxi rank.

Bus

There is one coach per day to and from London. Local bus services run to and from Kendal, Lancaster and Keswick as well as to destinations throughout the Lake District.

The town is small enough to walk around easily. Buses run to the adjoining town, Bowness-on-Windermere, on the Windermere lake front (or you can walk there
in around 20 minutes).

Windermere has the largest lake in England.

• Holehird Gardens

  phone: +44 1539 446008
  address: Patterdale Road, LA23 1NP

• Hill Top House

  phone: +44 1539 436269

• Stott Park Bobbin Mill

  phone: +44 1539 531087

• Townend

  phone: +44 1539 432628
  address: Troutbeck, LA23 1LB

• Lake District Visitor Centre

• Treetop Trek

  address: Brockhole, Lake District Visitor Centre, Windermere LA23 1LJ

• Windermere Steamboat Museum

  address: Rayrigg Road, Windermere LA23 1BN
  A collection of boats comprising two dugout boats dating from between 1200 and 1320; five yachts charting sailing on the lake from the 18th century to late 20th century; an 1870 Windermere ferry boat and copper ore barge; ten steamboats ranging in age from 1850 to 1907; seven rowing boats and a group of canoes; seven motor boats and six speed boats. The museum is housed in a new building which opened in 2019. Heritage boat trips cost an extra £10.

• Blackwell House

  phone: +44 1539 446139

• Orrest Head

• Fell Foot Park

• Booths

  address: Victoria St, LA23 1QA
  Medium sized upmarket supermarket, in the former station building.

• The Hideaway Restaurant

  phone: +44 15394 43070
  address: Phoenix Way, Windermere LA23 1DB, England

• The Queens Pub & Restaurant

  address: Victoria Street, Windermere LA231AB, England

Hotels

• Low Wood Bay

  address: Low Wood Bay, LA23 1LP
  Low Wood Bay is a 4-star resort hotel on the lake shore of Windermere. Featuring its own leisure club and beauty salon including a 50-foot swimming pool and jacuzzi.

• Miller Howe

  phone: +44 15394 42536
  address: Rayrigg Road LA23 1EY

Bed and Breakfast

• Holbeck Ghyll

  phone: +44 15394 32375
  address: Holbeck Ln, LA23 1LU

• Windermere Manor

• Gilpin Hotel

• Linthwaite House

  phone: +44 15394 88600
  address: Crook Rd, LA23 3JA

• Hillthwaite

  phone: +44 15394 43636
  address: Thornbarrow Rd, LA23 2DF

• Nanny Brow

  phone: +44 15394 33232
  address: Nanny Brow Clappersgate Ambleside LA22 9NF

• The Samling

  phone: +44 15394 31922
  address: Ambleside Rd, LA23 1LR

• Cedar Manor

  phone: +44 15394 43192
  address: Ambleside Rd, LA23 1AX

• Beech Hill

  phone: +44 844 502 7587
  address: Newby Bridge Road, LA23 3LR

• Storrs Hall

  phone: +44 15394 47111
  address: Windermere, LA23 3LG

• Ivy Bank

  address: Holly Road LA23 2AF

Self-catering

• Windermere Lodge

  address: Limefitt Park, Troutbeck, Cumbria LA23 1PA
  A four-star graded luxury pine lodge in Limefitt Park, Troutbeck.

• Bowness-on-Windermere is about a mile away on the lake and can easily be reached on foot.
• Ambleside is a few miles north on Lake Windermere
• Hawkshead and Coniston are to the west
• Kendal is to the east and provides road and rail connections