Ambleside Climbing Wall Visitors to Ambleside are about to be 'stone-walled' with the opening of a new indoor climbing wall. Ambleside-based Adventure Peaks company is building a new indoor climbing centre within what was the old 'Young’s Furnishing' building on Lake Road. The wall is said to be 10.5 meter’s high and will be [...]
Stickle Tarn, in the Langdale Pikes, went on the market in early 2015, it was put up for sale, along with some other parcels of land by the Lake District National Park Authority. BBC : News piece interviewing Pete Kelly on the sale of Stickle Tarn https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-31294591 ITV: The New Guardians of Stickle Tarn? https://www.itv.com/news/2015-02-10/local-swimmers-bid-to-buy-lake-districts-stickle-tarn/ [...]
The 3rd Saturday in November marks the official start of Christmas every year in Ambleside and in 2019 that's Saturday 16th November and its the day of the big Christmas lights switch on. Alongside the annual Rush-bearing procession and the famous Ambleside sports this is one of those days in the year where locals [...]