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You could be staying in anywhere else in the Lake District. Adjust your timing accordingly. Liaise with your driver.
Steamboat Ride on Windermere
The boats leave from Bowness Pier or from Ambleside. Bowness is about 8 miles south of Grasmere (A591), through the town of Windermere and along the shores of the lake. Ambleside at the top of the lake a few miles from Grasmere. It’s a half hour by boat from Bowness to Ambleside. Tel: 015394 43360.
Bowness
Bowness is one of Cumbria’s most popular resorts. Full of souvenir shops and cafes, it tends to be very crowded at the height of the season. Now a 40p charge for toilets next to coach park
Rowing Boat – can be hired from the pier.
The World of Beatrix Potter (www.hop-skip-jump.com)
The Windermere Steamboat Museum (www.steamboat.co.uk) – Arthur Ransome’s Amazon and Captain Flint’s House Boat housed there (Swallows & Amazons).
Grasmere
On approaching the village (A591) from the south point out Dove Cottage on the right, behind a group of cottages, but visible, opposite Grasmere Lake and the Hotel. Turn left for the village.
Coach Park
On the right, toilets (30p charge) and telephone.
Facilities in the village
Bureau de Change (opposite Peter Rabbit Shop)
Cashpoints – currently only one in the Post Office.
Lots of places for lunching & shopping
Sites
St Oswald’s Church (Wordsworth Family Plot in graveyard)
Sarah Nelson Gingerbread Shop (through churchyard follow aroma!)
Dove Cottage (warn group to take care when crossing the busy A591).