Busy weekly market with 80 stalls of local produce, crafts and gifts.
Events calendar
Event calendar for Another Place, The Lake and The Brackenrigg Inn, live music, quiz nights, art installations, wild activities and more.
Featured events
Skate by the lake
Winter 2026
This winter, our 200sqm ice rink returns to Ullswater. Experience the lake gardens aglow with seasonal cheer, with dedicated accessible and family-friendly skate sessions so everyone can join the fun.
A busy market running at the pretty small market town from mid February to end December, with a wide range of food, fresh produce and gifts.
Family-friendly shows to comedy, music and more. Discover a year-round packed programme of nationally acclaimed theatre on the lakeshore at Derwentwater.
Learn how sheepdogs are trained from youngsters to fully trained dogs. See the dogs run the sheep around a typical trial course. The demonstration will finish with two dogs working as a brace team. Demonstrations will be held every Thursday throughout May, June, July, August & September at 6pm regardless of the weather and will last approximately 1 hour.
October marks the start of the famous Martindale red deer rut, join Nicola Merrit for a deer rutting hike in the Martindale Valley this Autumn.