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St Mary's Church, Ambleside

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St Mary’s in Ambleside keeps a surprise on its west wall: a 26-foot mural of the town’s rushbearing procession, painted by Gordon Ransom during the war, when the Royal College of Art was evacuated here. The church is a tall-spired Gothic Revival design by George Gilbert Scott from the 1850s, and the spire is a landmark for miles around. Open and free, in the middle of town.

More places to visit near St Mary's Church, Ambleside

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Lake District

You’re inside itNational Park near Grasmere

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

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Ambleside

Village

Slate-built town at the head of Windermere, its narrow streets full of outdoor shops, cafes and the tiny Bridge House straddling Stock Beck.

0.2 km N · Cumbria

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Bridge House

Landmark near Ambleside

A tiny 17th-century two-room cottage built out over Stock Beck in the middle of Ambleside, now a National Trust icon.

0.5 km N

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Stock Ghyll Force

Waterfall near Ambleside

A 70-foot two-stage fall in wooded ravine a short walk behind Ambleside, reached by an easy railed path.

0.9 km NE

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Rydal Cave

Cave near Rydal

A quarry mouth above Rydal Water big enough to swallow a house, its floor pool crossed on stepping stones — the void left by Loughrigg's slate men.

2.7 km NW

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Rydal Water

Lake near Rydal

Between Grasmere and Ambleside, this small lake sits close to Rydal Mount, where Wordsworth spent his later years.

2.8 km NW