Editing Ambleside (section)

===Bridge House===
[[File:Bridge House Ambleside.JPG|thumb|150px|Bridge House in 2009]]
Bridge House was built over [[Stock Ghyll]] more than 300 years ago, probably as a summer house and apple store for Ambleside Hall. It was purchased by local people in 1926 and given to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. [[Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria|Listed Grade I]], the building is now used as an information centre for the National Trust, and is part of the Trust's [[Windermere and Troutbeck]] property.<ref>Bridge House – Information from a notice at Bridge House.</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num= 1245148|desc= BRIDGE HOUSE |access-date = 23 July 2014}}</ref>

[[File:View of the cobbler's shop on the bridge, Ambleside (undated).jpg|160px|thumb|left|Lewis Pinhorn Wood's ''The Cobbler's Shop on the Bridge'']] The building was depicted by the Victorian landscapist [[Lewis Pinhorn Wood]] (1848–1918) in his late 19th century work ''The Cobbler's Shop on the Bridge''.