Cumbria and the Lake District

the Grasmere guide

The small lake of Grasmere sits in a valley bottom close by the popular village of the same name.

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• The Lakes
  • Bassenthwaite
  • Buttermere
  • Coniston Water
  • Crummock Water
  • Derwentwater
  • Elterwater
  • Ennerdale Water
  • Grasmere
  • Haweswater
  • Loweswater
  • Rydal Water
  • Thirlmere
  • Ullswater
  • Wast Water
  • Windermere
• The Fells
  • Cat Bells
  • Coniston Old Man
  • Fairfield
  • Fleetwith Pike
  • Grasmoor
  • Great Gable
  • Harrison Stickle
  • Helvellyn
  • High Stile
  • Mellbreak
  • Pillar
  • Place Fell
  • Rosset Crag
  • Saddleback
  • Scafell Pike
  • Skiddaw
  • Yoke
• The Pennines
• The Eden Valley
• The Coast

Grasmere in the Lake District

Welcome to the EDGE Guide to Grasmere in Cumbria.

Length: just over a mile.
Nearest towns:
Ambleside S on the A591, 3mls/5km.
Bowness & Windermere S on the A591, 7.5mls/13km.
Keswick on the A591, 12mls/19km.

Location map

Another of the smaller lakes. Nearby is the village of Grasmere, another of the jewels that Cumbria displays to delight the visitor.

The village is small, but packed with interesting features such as Dove Cottage where Wordsworth lived while trying to make his name as a poet.

In the grounds of the cottage the Rock of Names has a list of initials carved into the stone, including those of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy and the poet Coleridge.

The cottage is now a museum dedicated to the Wordsworths. Nearby are their graves.

Grasmere village.

Walks:

Access to the lake is restricted so most people either walk along the pavement on the A591 to view the lake, or climb the fells to enjoy the views.

Map

In the middle of the Lake District between Windermere and Thirlmere. Rydal Water is less than half a mile away.