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Ambleside

British  
/ ˈæmbəlˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Cumbria: a tourist centre for the Lake District. Pop: 3064 (2001)

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The Romantic writer lived in Rydal Mount, in Ambleside, Cumbria, from 1813 until his death in 1850 and it was put on the market by his descendants last year.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Erick Mattinson hunkered down in an Ambleside church after driving to collect his wife and a friend after their bus was canceled.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

“It really feels like you’re walking through the Alps or some ski resort at the moment,” Harrison Ward said in the Lake District community of Ambleside.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

An emergency shelter has been set up at Ambleside parish centre on Vicarage Road for anyone stranded.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

On Wednesday—the day following—the match with Rowland was appointed to come off on the bowling green of the Salutation Hotel, Ambleside, for, we believe, ten guineas a side, the best of three falls.

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney