Guidebook for Bowness-on-Windermere
Food Scene
The Flying Pig Pub
Rayrigg RoadHearty up-market pub grub
Graze cafe
Helm RoadReally tasty breakfasts and brunches. A cut above.
This place is really special. Great for high eta, a drink or a meal. Lovely décor and great views.
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Laura Ashley The Belsfield Hotel
Kendal RoadThis place is really special. Great for high eta, a drink or a meal. Lovely décor and great views.
Drinks & Nightlife
Hole in t' Wall (New Hall Inn)
Robinson PlaceA real old English pub
The Angel Inn
Helm RoadA hotel pub with a lovely sloping garden, and good food
Arts & Culture
The Lakes is where the Arts and Crafts movement found itself. We could all learn from this comment by William Morris, the great designer: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
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Blackwell - the Arts & Crafts house
The Lakes is where the Arts and Crafts movement found itself. We could all learn from this comment by William Morris, the great designer: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
Essentials
Booths, Windermere
Victoria StreetFantastic supermarket - pricey mind you!
Getting Around
Windermere Railway Station
Entertainment & Activities
Low Wood Bay Resort & Spa
Ambleside RoadSailing and all other watersports
Non-guests can use the swimming pool here, but it does get busy on rainy days in the high season
White Cross Bay Holiday Park
Non-guests can use the swimming pool here, but it does get busy on rainy days in the high season
Lakeland Pony Trek
Patterdale RoadPonies big and small, even really small for tiny tots
Sightseeing
See lovely Windermere from the water. You can rent row boats and motorboats, or take a ferry.
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Windermere Lake Cruises (Head Office)
Glebe RoadSee lovely Windermere from the water. You can rent row boats and motorboats, or take a ferry.
Walk to the viewing point at the top of this road to get the full stretch of Lake Windermere in all its glory
Biskey Howe Road
Biskey Howe RoadWalk to the viewing point at the top of this road to get the full stretch of Lake Windermere in all its glory