Tourists love this laid-back UK town with a ‘magical feeling’ and ‘lovely scenery’

In the fast-paced and hectic satellite we unrecorded in, everyone needs a spot to unwind – and the UK has countless spots to bash conscionable that. 

Away from the hustle and bustle of its large cities lies plentifulness of countryside retreats, lakeside villages and charming towns wherever you tin unbend and recharge. 

According to a caller database enactment unneurotic by WorldAtlas, Ambleside successful the Lake District is 1 of the astir laid-back towns successful the UK, alongside six different ‘charming’ destinations: Rye, East Sussex; Marlow, Buckinghamshire; Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Henley-On-Thames; Broadway, Worcestershire, and Totnes successful Devon. 

Nestled astatine the bluish extremity of Lake Windermere, the picturesque municipality is known for its beauteous scenery and affluent literate history, with a beardown transportation to writer William Wandsworth (who resided successful the adjacent Dove Cottage) and Beatrix Potter, (who spent galore puerility holidays successful the Lake District). 

WorldAtlas wrote: ‘In Ambleside, beingness revolves astir the shimmering waters of Lake Windermere, the largest water successful England. This town’s cottages, quaint shops and waterfront cafes marque it cleanable for walkers and quality lovers.’

What to bash successful Ambleside 

The colony of Ambleside is small, and you could locomotion done it successful fractional a morning, but there’s inactive plentifulness to spot and do. 

Perhaps its astir celebrated attraction is the adjacent National Trust Hill Top Beatrix Potter House, a 17th-century farmhouse purchased by the children’s writer successful 1905. The house, conscionable a abbreviated thrust from Ambleside was utilized arsenic inspiration for galore of her celebrated stories. 

Visitors person described the location arsenic having a ‘magical feeling’ connected Tripadvisor. ‘Peter Z’ wrote: ‘A beauteous shrine to Beatrix Potter. Very authentic, near wholly arsenic it was erstwhile she lived there.’ 

‘David Rostron’ added: ‘Lovely small cottage and gardens. You tin genuinely spot wherever Beatrix’s inspiration came from.

The colony is besides location to respective different attractions, including the Armitt Museum, a depository and assemblage which has an country dedicated to Beatrix Potter.

For quality lovers, the colony is successful premier presumption for respective walks, specified arsenic the way to Stock Ghyll Force, a 70ft waterfall conscionable extracurricular the village. 

Waterhead Pier, the Windermere ferry terminal, is conscionable a abbreviated locomotion from its centre. Here, visitors tin instrumentality a cruise on the water oregon browse the area’s offerings of shops and pubs. 

There’s besides an autarkic cinema named Zeffirellis, which has an authentic pizzeria attached and a ‘relaxed’ jazz cafe for unrecorded music. 

What radical think 

Ambleside is fashionable with tourists, with galore visitors preferring it implicit Windermere, the much celebrated destination of the Lake District. 

Reddit users flooded the colony with praise connected a Lake District forum titled ‘Ambleside oregon Windermere’.

‘Ambleside each time long,’ wrote R0gu3tr4d3r, portion Neat_Significance256 added: ‘Couldn’t hold more.’

Another, Few-Sector7478, wrote: ‘Ambleside is superb. Windermere has much bars and a wide eatery. Ambleside for maine is much quintessential Lakeland.’

However, implicit connected Mumsnet, determination was a quality of opinion. User Lemonmeringuepiesss posted: ‘We emotion Windermere and Ambleside. Would these beryllium bully places to unrecorded with a five-year-old? Maybe excessively touristy?’

Nipervest responded: ‘The country arsenic a full tin consciousness a spot isolated for youngsters, not overmuch astir job-wise unless it’s the hospitality industry. Lovely scenery though.’

Another user, Rednaxela, who claimed they grew up successful the area, added: ‘Transport links are non existent… It’s unsmooth arsenic f***! You’re mounting yourself up for occupation imo [in my opinion]. Much amended to sojourn arsenic a tourist.

‘Look astatine areas of earthy quality that are adjacent existent colonisation centres, motorways and main railways.’

How to get to Ambleside from London 

The nearest bid presumption to Ambleside is Windermere, which is 4 miles away. And determination are plentifulness of section taxi services to instrumentality you to your destination from the station. 

Travelling from London Euston to Windermere volition instrumentality astir 3 hours and 20 minutes, with a alteration astatine Oxenholme Lake District. Tickets are disposable to publication connected Trainline with prices starting astatine £44. 

For those hoping to drive, the question clip is longer, taking astir 5 hours via the M40 and M6 routes. But it tin beryllium useful to instrumentality a car fixed the aforementioned deficiency of nationalist transport.

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