Ambleside

Ambleside is covered by postcode district LA22. It is in the Westmorland and Furness council area, England.

Typical price £375,000 Homes sold in Ambleside, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 107 of 147 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 71 of 148 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 572 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Ambleside, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Ambleside, by flood risk Of the 148 postcodes in Ambleside that ONS places, 53 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 groups of postcodes at high or medium risk are outlined: 36 postcodes at high or medium risk; 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Ambleside. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A593A591 LA22 0AA: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AB: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AD: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AE: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AG: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AH: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AL: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AQ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AR: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AS: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AU: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AW: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AZ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BA: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BB: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BD: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BG: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BH: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BJ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BN: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BP: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BW: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BX: not on the flood risk listLA22 0BZ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DA: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DB: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DD: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DF: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DG: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DJ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DP: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DR: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DS: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DT: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DU: not on the flood risk listLA22 0DX: not on the flood risk listLA22 0EG: not on the flood risk listLA22 0EP: not on the flood risk listLA22 0EQ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0ER: not on the flood risk listLA22 0ES: not on the flood risk listLA22 0ET: not on the flood risk listLA22 0EU: not on the flood risk listLA22 0EW: not on the flood risk listLA22 0EY: not on the flood risk listLA22 0EZ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0HA: not on the flood risk listLA22 0HD: not on the flood risk listLA22 0HG: not on the flood risk listLA22 0HJ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0QU: not on the flood risk listLA22 0QX: not on the flood risk listLA22 0QZ: not on the flood risk listLA22 0RB: not on the flood risk listLA22 9AE: not on the flood risk listLA22 9AF: not on the flood risk listLA22 9AJ: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BA: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BE: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BG: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BH: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BJ: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BP: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BQ: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BW: not on the flood risk listLA22 9BX: not on the flood risk listLA22 9DB: not on the flood risk listLA22 9DL: not on the flood risk listLA22 9ED: not on the flood risk listLA22 9EL: not on the flood risk listLA22 9EN: not on the flood risk listLA22 9EP: not on the flood risk listLA22 9ER: not on the flood risk listLA22 9EX: not on the flood risk listLA22 9EY: not on the flood risk listLA22 9EZ: not on the flood risk listLA22 9HD: not on the flood risk listLA22 0AT: low flood risk at worstLA22 0BU: low flood risk at worstLA22 0EB: low flood risk at worstLA22 0EF: low flood risk at worstLA22 0HB: low flood risk at worstLA22 9AR: low flood risk at worstLA22 9BD: low flood risk at worstLA22 9BU: low flood risk at worstLA22 9DG: low flood risk at worstLA22 9DH: low flood risk at worstLA22 9DQ: low flood risk at worstLA22 9FA: low flood risk at worstLA22 9LB: low flood risk at worstLA22 0BT: medium flood risk at worstLA22 0EA: medium flood risk at worstLA22 9BT: medium flood risk at worstLA22 9DJ: medium flood risk at worstLA22 9DP: medium flood risk at worstLA22 0AJ: high flood riskLA22 0AN: high flood riskLA22 0AP: high flood riskLA22 0AX: high flood riskLA22 0AY: high flood riskLA22 0DH: high flood riskLA22 0DN: high flood riskLA22 0DQ: high flood riskLA22 0DW: high flood riskLA22 0DY: high flood riskLA22 0DZ: high flood riskLA22 0EE: high flood riskLA22 0EH: high flood riskLA22 0EJ: high flood riskLA22 0EN: high flood riskLA22 0HQ: high flood riskLA22 0QT: high flood riskLA22 0QY: high flood riskLA22 9AD: high flood riskLA22 9AG: high flood riskLA22 9AH: high flood riskLA22 9AN: high flood riskLA22 9AS: high flood riskLA22 9AT: high flood riskLA22 9AU: high flood riskLA22 9AW: high flood riskLA22 9AX: high flood riskLA22 9AY: high flood riskLA22 9AZ: high flood riskLA22 9BB: high flood riskLA22 9BF: high flood riskLA22 9BL: high flood riskLA22 9BS: high flood riskLA22 9DR: high flood riskLA22 9DS: high flood riskLA22 9DT: high flood riskLA22 9DU: high flood riskLA22 9DX: high flood riskLA22 9DY: high flood riskLA22 9DZ: high flood riskLA22 9EA: high flood riskLA22 9EB: high flood riskLA22 9EE: high flood riskLA22 9EF: high flood riskLA22 9EG: high flood riskLA22 9EH: high flood riskLA22 9EJ: high flood riskLA22 9EQ: high flood riskLA22 9EU: high flood riskLA22 9HA: high flood riskLA22 9HB: high flood riskLA22 9LH: high flood riskLA22 9PL: high flood risk Ambleside 36 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to LA22 9HA, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk36 postcodes at high or medium risk5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to LA22 0DN, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk5 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Ambleside, by flood risk Of the 148 postcodes in Ambleside that ONS places, 53 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 2 groups of postcodes at high or medium risk are outlined: 36 postcodes at high or medium risk; 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Ambleside. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Ambleside 36 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to LA22 9HA, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk36 postcodes at high or medium risk
  • A home or business at high risk: 53
  • At medium risk at worst: 5
  • At low risk at worst: 13
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 77
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 148 postcodes in Ambleside that ONS places, 53 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.4301, longitude -2.9623. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.

The postcodes at high risk

53 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

LA22 9HA54 at high riskLA22 9EH27 at high riskLA22 9DT24 at high riskLA22 0DN23 at high riskLA22 9DX23 at high riskLA22 0DH16 at high riskLA22 9AN15 at high riskLA22 0EN13 at high riskLA22 9AY13 at high riskLA22 9DU13 at high riskLA22 9AG12 at high riskLA22 0HQ12 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 36 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LA22 9HA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
  • 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LA22 0DN, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Ambleside?

Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 107 of the 147 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 572 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 71 of its 148 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Windermere, 6.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Ambleside?

Homes in Ambleside sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 21 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £425,000 from 35 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£375,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£425,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £700,000 7 sales
  • Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced £283,500 6 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £320,000 5 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole LA22 district, Ambleside's main postcode district: a typical £425,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ambleside: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Ambleside?

None of the 148 postcodes now in use in Ambleside came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 35 homes sold in Ambleside were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LA22 district, 0%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn AmblesideAcross the LA22 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 21 (0%) 0 of 33 (0%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 35 (0%) 0 of 72 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Ambleside?

Ofcom reports on 147 of the 148 postcodes in Ambleside. At 107 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit107 of 147
Postcodes where every home can get superfast142 of 147

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Ambleside at risk of flooding?

71 of the 148 postcodes in Ambleside have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 572 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 71 of 148 postcodes High: 444Medium: 128Low: 244Very low: 3

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Ambleside?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Ambleside. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Ambleside?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ambleside is Windermere Rail Station, 6.8 km away in a straight line.

  • Windermere Rail Station Railway station 6.8 kmDrive
  • Staveley Rail Station Railway station 11.1 kmDrive
  • Burneside (Cumbria) Rail Station Railway station 15.2 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Ambleside?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Ambleside. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Ambleside safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 205 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ambleside over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 21 September 2025
  2. 20 October 2025
  3. 11 November 2025
  4. 19 December 2025
  5. 13 January 2026
  6. 8 February 2026
  7. 17 March 2026
  8. 17 April 2026
  9. 29 May 2026
  10. 22 June 2026
  11. 8 July 2026
  12. 20 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences92 reports
Shoplifting24 reports
Other theft21 reports
Public order16 reports
Criminal damage and arson15 reports
Drugs13 reports
Burglary8 reports
Other crime6 reports

Also: vehicle crime 5, robbery 2, possession of weapons 2, anti-social behaviour 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Ambleside?

Parliamentary constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Police force area
Cumbria
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

All 148 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Ambleside postcodes

148 postcodes in use in Ambleside, by district:

LA22 postcode district,148 postcodes

That district is in the LA postcode area.

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Places near Ambleside

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Ambleside's £375,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Windermere6.8 km, £330,000Bowness-on-Windermere7.9 km, £305,000Kendal18.4 km, £260,000Shap21.5 km, £192,500Keswick22.0 km, £310,000Milnthorpe25.7 km, £250,000Grange-over-Sands27.0 km, £317,500Arnside27.1 km, £382,500 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Ambleside

What is the postcode for Ambleside?
Postcode district LA22, with 148 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Ambleside in?
Westmorland and Furness. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Ambleside?
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat), for Westmorland and Lonsdale. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Ambleside?
A typical £375,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 21 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Ambleside?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Ambleside CofE Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Lakes School, 4.9 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Ambleside have a railway station?
The nearest is Windermere station, 6.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Ambleside?
Ofcom reports on 147 of the 148 postcodes in Ambleside. At 107 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Ambleside at risk of flooding?
71 of the 148 postcodes in Ambleside have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 572 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Ambleside?
None of the 148 postcodes now in use in Ambleside came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 35 homes sold in Ambleside were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LA22 district, 0%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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