Glenthorne Country Guest House Easedale Road, Grasmere, Cumbria. LA22 9QH Tel/Fax: 015394 35389 E: gthorn@globalnet.co.uk |
Travel information Rail Service: From Oxenholme junction, on the London to Glasgow line, to Windermere. Bus connections to Grasmere. Direct link from Manchester airport to Windermere. Coach Services: National Express daily from London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh. Also from Sheffield, Leeds & Bradford in the summer. Mountain Goat: Four times a week in the summer from York, Harrogate & The Dales. Local Bus & Taxi Services: Stagecoach buses: Local timetable enquiries (01946) 63222. Grasmere Taxi: (015394) 35506 Mountain: Goat minibus day tours (015394) 45161 Information on travel, special events, exhibitions, tours etc, can be obtained at the Information Centre near the church on: Grasmere 015394 35245 Location of Glenthorne
Grasmere Two minutes walk from Glenthorne, Grasmere has a general store, newsagents, chemist and post office many quality gift and book shops, a garden centre, tea rooms, pubs and restaurants of varying price brackets. The Tourist Information Centre is in the village and there are a range of brochures and maps available in the guesthouse. More shops, a cinema and banks and petrol station are available in Ambleside; a twenty minute drive. There are regular buses from the village to Ambleside, Kendal and Keswick. Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount; both now open to the public interested in Wordsworth and his life in the lakes are only a short distance from Glenthorne. Walks both relaxing and more arduous are numerous and start from right outside our front door. Maps may be loaned from the guesthouse.
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