Ambleside
Ambleside is a town in Cumbria. It is located at the head of Windermere, England’s largest lake, within the Lake District National Park.Places of Interest
Highlights include Galava Roman Fort and Stagshaw Garden.
Galava Roman Fort
Archaeological site
Ambleside Roman Fort is the modern name given to the remains of a fort of the Roman province of Britannia. The ruins have been tentatively identified as those of either Galava or Clanoventa, mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary.
Stagshaw Garden
Garden
Stagshaw Garden is a woodland garden situated south of Ambleside, in Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. The garden is noted for its shrubs, including rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rydal and Clappersgate.
Rydal
Village
Clappersgate
Hamlet
Clappersgate is a village in the Westmorland and Furness Unitary Authority, in the county of Cumbria, England. Clappersgate is located on the B5286 road and on the River Brathay.
Brathay
Hamlet
Brathay is a hamlet in Skelwith parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of Lancashire, the hamlet lies close to Clappersgate on the south bank of the River Brathay, and is about 0.9 miles south west of Ambleside.
Ambleside
- Type: Town with 2,530 residents
- Description: town in Cumbria, England
- Category: locality
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.432° or 54° 25′ 55″ north
Longitude
-2.9631° or 2° 57′ 47″ west
Population
2,530
Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB AML
Open location code
9C6VC2JP+QQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Ambleside” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ambleside”
- Azerbaijani: “Emblsayd”
- Basque: “Ambleside”
- Breton: “Ambleside”
- Bulgarian: “Амблесиде”
- Cebuano: “Ambleside”
- Chinese: “安布賽德”
- Danish: “Ambleside”
- Dutch: “Ambleside”
- Esperanto: “Ambleside”
- French: “Ambleside”
- Galician: “Ambleside”
- German: “Ambleside”
- Greek: “Άμπλσαϊντ”
- Irish: “Ambleside”
- Italian: “Ambleside”
- Japanese: “アンブルサイド”
- Ladin: “Ambleside”
- Malay: “Ambleside”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ambleside”
- Persian: “امبلساید”
- Piemontese: “Ambleside”
- Polish: “Ambleside”
- Portuguese: “Ambleside”
- Russian: “Амблсайд”
- Russian: “Эмблсайд”
- Slovenian: “Ambleside”
- South Azerbaijani: “امبلساید”
- Spanish: “Ambleside”
- Swedish: “Ambleside”
- Urdu: “ایمبلسائڈ”
- Volapük: “Ambleside”
- Welsh: “Ambleside”
- Western Frisian: “Ambleside”
- “Ambleside”
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