[2] William and Dorothy Wordsworth, the 'Lake Poets', lived in Grasmere for 14 years and called it "the loveliest spot that man hath ever found.

The village is overlooked from the north-west by the rocky hill of Helm Crag, popularly known as The Lion and the Lamb or the Old Lady at the organ.

[8] The main A591 road connects Grasmere to the Vale of Keswick over Dunmail Raise to the north, and to Ambleside to the south.

(At Christmas 2015, the A591 was washed away on the Keswick side of Dunmail Raise, causing traffic to make a long detour.

Additionally, Stagecoach operates an open-top bus service, known as the 599 or 'Lakesider,' providing a scenic journey connecting Ambleside, Bowness-on-Windermere, and occasionally Kendal.

The present-day ceremony is an annual event which features a procession through the village with bearings made from rushes and flowers.

Participants compete in a variety of sports, including Cumberland wrestling, fell running and hound trails (similar to drag hunting).

[19] Grasmere is part of the Westmorland and Lonsdale parliamentary constituency, and is represented by the Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron.

[21] George Pickering painted many views around Grasmere, and an engraving of one of these, Grassmere Lake and Village, Westmorland, was published in Fisher's Drawing Room Sketch Book, 1834, accompanied by a humorous sketch by Letitia Elizabeth Landon about a lover of poetry who, given a legacy, buys a property here only to find extraordinary steps would be required to make life bearable.