This town just KEEPS giving!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2024
- Injury has forced me off the hills but there's no way I can stay indoors! And so I decided to have a wander through Ambleside, situated at the head of Windermere and do the whole 'tourist' thing in of the Lake District's most popular villages. I visit a number of independent shops, the stunning Stockghyll Force and famous landmarks; including a Roman fort. A grand day out, despite not being in the wild remote places but the change was very enjoyable! Check out the route below.
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/// ROUTE DETAILS ///
Start: Miller Bridge Car Park, Ambleside (Grid Ref: NY 37382 04204)
Distance: 6.6 km / 4.1 miles
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I spent some of the very best days of my life in Ambleside. Sitting in pubs after long hikes over the fells by roaring fires with a good pint.
OMG YOU KIDDING ME?? Sorry to hear about another injury.. prayers for healing! Seriously think about investing in some steel toed hiking boots!! Love you always..where ever you take us. Do love your wild camps. Thanks for sharing! Love from the USA!
13:30 whenever I see a fence like that I remember years ago when I was at St Abb's Head which is the top of a cliff at a coastal seabird colony. There was a tourist bus trip in and some people were messing about at a section of the path with a fence on it and the guide goes "CAREFUL! See that bit over there?" and points back "see how dangerous it is?! Well they decided to put the fence on THIS bit"
Worth saying - your local independant outdoor shop can absolutely compete with Amazon in terms of prices and they will have decent gear instead of pushing brands at you that value fashion brand sales than actual function.
As a person who grew up in Ambleside, this was really lovely to see. Thank you!
Have a trip along Hadrians Wall when you're injured.
Hi Glenn. maybe you could do a video from Durham, my local city. There's lots of hidden lanes & ancient passages & the riverside walks are beautiful. Then there's the cathedral. And of course a Greggs
The Roman fort at Vindolanda, Hexham in Northumberland is a place you would really enjoy and afterwards a walk along Hadrians wall. Sadly no longer a Sycamore tree in the famous dip, but a most enjoyable walk
I think that’s called making the best of a bad situation. Good work fella. Hope you are back up the fells soon.
Absolutely LOVED this video & YES PLEASE do more videos like this, touring towns & villages.
Your two planes that flew over were Short Tacano,s i know your not probably interested but i thought id tell you anyway lol! I really enjoy watching your channel by the way .All the best🤪👍
Get a camper van and travel round the uk , there’s so many hidden away places in this country .
That's what we do. So many places to discover in a van.
@@CampervanTales I really wanna sell my flat and just live in a camper van but not with 3 dogs 🤣🤣
@@hazelduerdoth4333 lol. We are down to two dogs now from 4. We wouldn't like to live in our van full time. It is really nice to go away but it is always nice to get home to a deep bath. Then to start planning the next trip😀
@@CampervanTales really wish I could afford to do both or at least have the balls to drive long distances and take the dogs camping but I’m truly petrified to drive far afield especially on motorways 🤣🤣 .
@@hazelduerdoth4333 aww that's a shame but totally understand. We are off to Northumberland next Friday for 12 days and looking forward to that. We know that we are very lucky. Take care
Always driven through Ambleside, never stopped, so have only ever seen it as far as the road through.. was nice to see.
Absolutely love Ambleside. Got a lot of our gear from there. Bacon & Cheese baguette from the Picnic Box, yummy 😋.
been going to Ambleside all my life you've just shown me places I didn't know existed brilliant cheers Glen 🍻
Green toe gunge was just what I wanted to hear about as I sat down to enjoy your video with my tea! Cheers Glenn😂😂
Those planes were Texan II RAF turboprops. Nice idea wandering around Ambleside.
I always enjoy your videos but honestly, this is one of the best you've done. If I ever get over the pond, Ambleside is one place I would now love to see in person. You are making it possible for us to see areas that we normally would never see. Thank you.
Hi Glen, hope your toe heals up soon...
Great film again and right in our back yard.. loved it!!
A suggestion for you... we went low level with some friends on Wednesday on a walk we would never think of and it was wonderful.
We walked from Hawkshead to Coniston over Hawkshead Hill trough Grizedale forest. Then once in Coniston the absolute must is a pint of Bluebird at the Black Bull then back over to Hawkshead via a different route to end with a pint and a pizza at Poppy Red..
Fabulous low level walk with a little bit of everything..
Keep it going Glen you give us loads of inspiration 👍👍
Cheers
Matthew & Sue
I'd love you to show us some of the little towns and villages! Makes a nice change if you're up to it...especially when injured. Thanks for showing us Ambleside! It's so interesting that where I live in Australia, we have lots of areas named after places in the UK. Launceston (we pronounce it differently), Ambleside, Windemere the Tamar River, Westbury etc...all named after places over there. The convicts must've been missing home 🤣. In fact when peeps visit Tasmania they often say it reminds them of England! Anyhoo, a bit of trivia no-one asked for 🤣🤣🤣.
Can't believe I've been going to the lakes for over 30 years and never been to those falls, will be a must do on my next visit ❤
cheddar gorge is a wonderful walk
Glenn, unlike you to miss a coffee stop. The new Force Cafe at the top of Stockghyll Force is really good and well worth a visit.
Thank you so much for this video, I never realized that there was so much to Ambleside... can't wait for my next visit 😊
Enjoyed that and the later Keswick walk Thank you 🤙
Loving this one. What a great idea! Would definitely like to see more guided tours...so many lovely towns and villages.
Enjoyed that very much. 34:00 are you planning on being the next 'bald and bankrupt'... You're halfway there 😂
Hope you recover quickly from the injury. Good to follow you round Ambleside, nice idea while you're recovering. xx
I have just come back from Ambleside and it rained for 3 days! Stock Ghyll Force was amazing! Loughrigg Fell was wet! The jetty at waterhead was under water and the benches at the youth hostel were floating away 😅
What a change! However mate, kept me captured as always. Top vid, top bloke. All the best. Hope yu recover soon.
I'm in Ambleside a lot and so surprising how much I haven't seen of it. I'll be taking some of those bits in now.
Take it easy on yourself and give your body time to recoup properly. You'll be back to 100% in no time! 👍
You really do have great presentation skills .
Loved it .
👌👏👏
That is so funny what you said at 7:50-ish "it always feels a bit scruffy around here, I think it's Greggs!" Well I did the maintenance in that shop - until today, as I have just quit my job 🤣 lol
Loved the Video Glenn! Thanks for putting out a video for us even when your injured!
....and the title for the 'new series' could be..."The Reluctant Tourist" !! 😂 Nice to see a different side of things, allbeit a little busy for my taste (and yours, by the look of it!). Hope your feet return to their robust best soon, Glenn! As always, thanks for the vid, keep em coming!
I haven't been to Ambleside and the waterfalls for ages ! I live near morecambe so it's not to far.
The amount of times I've been to Ambleside and not seen half of this,normally only pop in for the Hiking shops,definitely spending a few hours here next time I'm here
Awesome little town. Ireland vs. Scotland in World Cup rugby. That will be interesting.
Sorry to hear about your foot. This video was great! Reminds me of home.😊
Grasmere tour next please.
Your content inspired me to get walking and enjoy our beautiful countryside.
Very enjoyable, thank you. 👍
Come to beautiful Knott end on Sea, its a little known place with a thriving village centre and beautiful lake district and forest of Bowland views. Sea wall walk is flat, easy to navigate and also pop over on the tiny passenger ferry to Fleetwood.
You were spot on about the nut Wellington in zaffarelies delicious, can't believe you never went in the fjallraven shop ,the mountain factor
Love all your video's. Thank you for your efforts even with a gammy foot😅
A nice change, Glenn. I hope your foot recovers quickly and you're back on the fells PDQ, after all there's still 4 books to complete!.. A suggestion for another town walk - Keswick, especially on a market day and including a nice toddle down to the lake and Friar's Crag.
Great vlog, I love Ambleside, we were only there a week ago. The falls are great, we often have rental accommodation that overlooks them, you drift off to sleep after a hard day in the fells listening to the sound of rushing water....... Keswick would make a great one too, there's Friars Crag, the Moot Hall, Pencil Museum, the lake and lots of great pubs, oh and some fantastic views!
Absolutely beautiful walk. I love all your videos, this one was really interesting for an American. Great job!! You'd make an excellent tour guide. 😃
This video was amazing you did such a great job
I would love to see more of these
Great little video, can always recommend the Apple Pie restaurant and shop , especially their bath buns ❤
I have been travelling through Ambleside for years, but you have just shown me aspects of the place, that I never knew existed. Thank You, an education for certain. Thanks for all of these trips
I've been to Ambleside countless times and I haven't seen half the sites you visited!! I'll definitely be getting off the beaten track next time I go!
Wowww, what a beautiful little town. Thanks for showing us around. Wouldn't mind visiting some day, looks lovely.
Really enjoyed that Glenn. Can't wait to get back up there.
The parade of shops with Greggs used to be the bus station and I remember sleeping a few nights on the benches there. They were all usually full in the mid 70's. No one bothered then about sleeping rough but it has now taken on a different meaning. It was just a cheap way of getting out and I just loved it. (Not all change is for the better!!). I lived in Yorkshire then but moved to the eastern lakes 16 years ago. Better late than never!
A really enjoyable video , a city to visit for all its history I'd recommend chester .
Ambleside. Rains a lot, camouflages with the grey slate. Plenty of good outdoor shops. Lots of Chelsea Tractor tourists who are there for mostly the restaurants, and treat as home from home (London), but unlikely to be seen up any number of mid-sized fells. Far too much traffic. Your beautiful videos capture the real vibe of the Lake District as far as possible from these mosh-pits like Ambleside, many people wading through a long traffic jams half the time looking for parking, enough to be showing off to be in South Lakes at lake level (Windemere/Ambleside maybe as far as Rydal if they've heard of it). This is what happens when so much south Lake District became Air BnB and priced out the locals of 20+ years ago. People here saying Ambleside hasn't changed in 50 years but I think that it has - it has become an upper middle class fest full of oversize 'status vehicles' (not vehicles to throw in your ropes and tents into the back of as per would be seen 50 years ago) - the real lake district is still found near great gable and conniston old man and those areas not quite so accessible via a horrendous traffic jam off the motor way past the 'zip wire forest experience' (I forget it's name). Much of Lakeland as was, has been truly priced out and gentrified, so they'll be less of Jos Naylor's breed able to survive and thrive unless he's holding assets in Blackrock on a shed load of properties. Sorry, rant over. Just an opinion following recent trips there versus those when I was a backpacker navigating all over the Lake District via YHA !
I can see from this thread it is an echo chamber of people not seeing what I see when I go, but seeing lots of idyllic independent tea shops and windy streets all sitting beneath the first promise of Lakeland hills in the south. There's that too. I feel it is a victim of its own success and now far too crowded , expensive, and full of traffic fumes on a typical day to be enjoyable - it's really not representative of so much calmer and better elsewhere amongst the fellls. Go North, Go West, for sure or even try Patterdale and Ullswater in the East.
That ended up quite a long walk in the end! Sorry to hear about the injury, fingers crossed it heals quickly 👍👍👍
Love your videos! Please do a video of the coffin route (Ambleside to Grasmere via Rydale). Its such a cute little walk!
Your walk arounfd the Village remimded me i bought my Hilleberg Tent in a little adventure travel shop that were the only UK suplliers at that time (mid to late 90s)
my god BC, you are a celebrity in Ambleside. unusual and satisfying tour of the town, is it christmas yet
Fabulous!!!!!
Great video, thanks. Aircraft were Texan T1s 👍
Well done mate, loved this episode in-fact i love all your videos. Its good to see these villages and you give outsiders the chance to see what they are like. I visited Banbrough Castle after watching that episode, it was humbling and now one of my favourite places, thank you.
I stubbed my toe walking back down from Styhead Tarn back in May it is still black now, luckily it does not cause me any issues, It hasn't stopped me enjoying a decent walk every week.Looking at this I hope to visit Ambleside next year,I have only driven through each time, 'er indoors' likes the look of that rock shop.
Lovely video- makes me miss being in Ambleside 🌞
Thanks for posting
Loved it! So beautiful!! 🙌🙌💕
Yeayyyy, if you're up for travels, would love some Craggy does Scandinavia.... in winter. Love my snow and love people/van campers who travel snowy Arctic lands. ❤
wishing you a speedy recovery!
Me and my Fiance are in the lakes this week. I don't think I will be able to hike due to my illness.. but goodness and I going to try. We have to visit here
I'm glad you enjoyed your little walk and thanks for taking us with you.
Enjoyed your video.
Perhaps a series along Hadrians' Wall to whet your appetite for future vlogs?
Lovely😊
Look at the toe injury as a blessing, its giving your body some more time to repair
Ambleside is wonderful; it’s been the base for so many holidays for my family. Although it all looked familiar I still enjoyed your stroll around the town. Many thanks as always Glenn.
Great stuff, I’ve been going there for years but I’ve seen so much new areas
You could do Silverdale with Jenny browns point, the Wells, Gibralter farm cliff top views and Stone circle, Eaves Wood and the Pepperpot and Silverdale is an AONB with over 300 different walks .
Read my mind, I was going say please do a series. Grasmere next please 👍
A Cotswolds vlog would be nice. The Slaughters in particular!
Stunning place! 🫶 Love your videos 😁
A tip for you is do some walkabouts for the folk who can't do it so they can see areas for possible access as well as seeing the hill areas. Don't forget some folk can't do it
Enjoyed this. I’m local and didnt even know about that fort!
Loved this, if you decide to do more, I suggest you try Sedbergh. Hope your toe gets better soon.
This was great. Thank you ❤
Never been to Bridge House when it was open. Mind you, coming from Canada I had low expectations.
Really enjoyed this get well soon
It has been 22 years since I've been here.....thanks for the tour.
Nice to see other parts of the town. apart from the bars I've not done much in area 😂
Like it.
Hi Glenn sorry about your foot hope it heals soon ,What breathtaking scenery the waterfall ,the cows, the greenery an amazing rock collection ,a wonderful little town you captured the best of everything, your videos never disappoints thanks for sharing stay safe
Suggestions: Holy island/ Lindisfarne. Bamburgh castle. More research and local history of the North, the Kings in the north, the prince bishops of Durham -link to the landscape,small eg; you're from the lakes area- the origin of fjell foss dale bek etc.
Just had to let you know, i thoroughly enjoy your videos. Not a single one i find boring, more like comforting if anything. Doesnt matter if you're hiking, camping, reviewing, traveling, i love it all!!! Keep up the amazing work, hope you heal your toe up quickly though 🙏
Brilliant Glenn. I`ve been going to Ambleside for over 50 year and never new that there was a Roman fort there! Yo u learn something new everyday. Very informative.
As someone who can't get out and hike at the moment, I loved this. Spent many many weekends over that way.
Ramble through Amble....
Great video and hopefully the foot is on the mend. I had wondered if the images on the wall in Kysty were yours very distinctive Herdies :)
Enjoyed this a lot… hope your foot heals soon..😁