31 businesses in Windermere appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. It ranks 10 of 25 trading locations in Cumbria. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, plastics and plastic articles. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 5.5% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 05/10/2026 at 06:14HMRC release in view: Aug 26Snapshot: 2026-10-04.1
336Import declarations▼ 11.8% on the 6 months before
27Export declarations
−5.5%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
31Trading businesses
Top 10 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier
Ranked by declaration volume and months active. Hover any bar in the 24-month indicators for that month's figures. Log in for keyword search and HMRC category filters across all 31 businesses.
★ Most active in WindermereFiled more customs declarations than any other Windermere business over the last six months — roughly 77% of the town's total import activity, mostly in plants and cut flowers.
Most active business
LAKELAND LIMITED
260 import declarationsImports onlyLA23 *Ch. 06Ch. 09Ch. 17Ch. 19Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar conta, mops and leather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; squeegees of rubber or other flexible materials; brooms and brushes, n.e.s., table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, and pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of aluminium (excl. cans, boxes and similar containers of heading 7612, articles of the nature of a work implement, sp.
▼ Expected to slow by 2.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity260 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
WINANDER LEISURE LTD
6 import declarationsImports onlyLA23 *Ch. 61Ch. 62Ch. 85Ch. 90Active in 2 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of man-made fibres, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats), men's or boys' overcoats, car-coats, capes, cloaks, anoraks, incl. ski jackets, wind-cheaters, wind-jackets and similar articles, of man-made fibres (excl. knitted or crocheted, suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers and trousers), women's or girls' overcoats, car-coats, capes, cloaks, anoraks, incl. ski jackets, wind-cheaters, wind-jackets and similar articles, of man-made fibres (excl. knitted or crocheted, suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers and trousers).
▼ Expected to slow by 100.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity6 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
GARY MIDDLEBROOK LESLEY ANN MIDDLEBROOK
3 import declarations2 export declarationsLA23 *Ch. 01Ch. 23Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include pure-bred breeding horses, preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale).
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity3 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity2 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
LAKELAND GARDENS LIMITED
5 import declarationsImports onlyLA23 *Ch. 06Active in 2 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom spawn (excl. bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, incl. chicory plants and roots, unrooted cuttings and slips, fruit and nut trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and roses), rhododendrons and azaleas, grafted or not, edible fruit or nut trees, shrubs and bushes, whether or not grafted.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity5 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
W MCCLURE LTD
4 import declarationsImports onlyLA23 *Ch. 20Active in 4 of the last 6 months
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity4 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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What Windermere trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 31 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar contaMops and leather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; squeegees of rubber or other flexible materials; brooms and brushes, n.e.s.Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, and pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of aluminium (excl. cans, boxes and similar containers of heading 7612, articles of the nature of a work implement, spFloorcloths, dishcloths, dusters and similar cleaning cloths, of all types of textile materialsClutches and shaft couplings, incl. universal joints, for machineryMade-up articles of textile materials, incl. dress patterns, n.e.s.Glassware for table or kitchen purposes (excl. glass having a linear coefficient of expansion <= 5 x 10 -6 per kelvin within a temperature range of 0 C to 300 C, glassware of glass ceramics or lead crystal, articles of heading 7018, drinking glasses,Table, kitchen or other household articles, and parts thereof, of stainless steel (excl. cans, boxes and similar containers of heading 7310; waste baskets; shovels, corkscrews and other articles of the nature of a work implement; articles of cutlery,
Common questions about trade in Windermere
How many businesses import or export from Windermere?
HMRC customs records show 31 businesses in Windermere (LA23) filed declarations over the last six months — 336 import declarations and 27 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Windermere businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Windermere traders the leading goods are travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar conta, mops and leather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; squeegees of rubber or other flexible materials; brooms and brushes, n.e.s., table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, and pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of aluminium (excl. cans, boxes and similar containers of heading 7612, articles of the nature of a work implement, sp, floorcloths, dishcloths, dusters and similar cleaning cloths, of all types of textile materials. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Windermere growing?
Import activity is down 11.8% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 5.5%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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