Market Cross, Ambleside, tenter fields, Ambleside, allotment gardens, Ambleside, bus station, Ambleside, and 1 other

Ambleside, Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom

Market Cross. The early prosperity of Ambleside as a market town was founded upon sheep and the woollen industry serviced by a network of pack horse tracks. For many hundred of years this was an open site with views across fields and meadows to Loughrigg. Flax was also grown nearby and spun and wove

n into linen cloth. Later Ambleside was known for its linsey-woolsey cloth combining a strong linen warp with a warm woollen weft to produce a coarse hard wearing material. Here were the village tente

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