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 with a variety of prices.

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, 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 borrowed from the guesthouse.