Specialist shops offer a welcome variation to high street chains and there are small museums and galleries to enjoy.

Ambleside provides high quality restaurants, serving a wide variety of food and a huge selection of real ales are available in the pubs.

Here are some of our favourites and those highly recommended by our guests ...

Outdoor shops with friendly knowledgeable staff:

• Epicentre
• Climbing Shop
• Mountain Factor
• Head for the Hills

Clothing / Gift Shops:

• Rush
• Fat Face
• Detail
• Old Courthouse Gallery
• Attic
• Gear

Restaurants:

• Dodds
• Zefferellis Cinema & Restaurant
• Sheila's Cottage
• Doi Intanon