Orrest Head to Windermere Library to Bowness route?

I wouldn't go into the Windermere Hotel, I would go into the Cafe at Booths supermarket, but in truth there are any number of eating places in Windermere Village, between the hotel and the library.
The toilets in Booths are free, more than can be said for any of the public ones in Windermere or Bowness.

There are sidewalks all the way down from the Windermere Hotel past the library to Bowness pier. Totally safe.
If you do just walk down the hill to Bowness past the Baddeley Clock and the former St John's Church you will eventually pass Windermere Cenotaph.
Within the compound you will also see a little memorial to soldiers who drowned at Cockshott Point in Windermere Lake while training in 1945- a tragic little side story.

If I wanted a quiet way down to Bowness I would cross over the road at the Library and go down Birthwaite station, left into Longlands Road, and down to the steamboat museum.
I sometimes do a different version of that starting from St Mary's Church, Windermere (on the Ambleside road).
The alternative, prettier route is go down to the Baddeley Clock, just past St John's Church (now apartments) then cross the road, and go down Goodly Dale and Sheriff's Walk to the museum, left into Rayrigg Road back to Bowness.
But the open top bus stops at the Library, so by all means take that down.

Some of the Lake launches stop at the museum, in winter it's the islands cruise, not sure of the summer timetable.

Thank you isn31c for your suggestions. They were exactly what I was looking for and trying to use the Internet to search for.
we are going to follow it.

I've updated my planning itinerary to stop at the Booths Supermarket Cafe for rest/refreshments and rest room. WC's are important!
Then we will walk to the library.

From the library, if we still have energy we will walk down Lake Road/New Road and take Sheriff's Walk to the Jetty Museum.

Wife wants to visit it, now that I mentioned it.

So then from there, we will either take a launch back to Bowness, if available, or walk the 15 minutes back to the Hotel.

I've traced the summer launch times at the Steamboat Museum. Only the Ambleside bound boats call there, and at Brockhole.
The Bowness bound boats don't call- they are non stop from Ambleside to Bowness.

The ones which stop 10 minutes after Bowness are the 1040, 1130, 1300, 1400, 1450 and 1600 from Bowness.
The 1130, 1300 and 1450 only call at the museum during the Summer 6 week school holidays, ending this year on 31 August.

I was in Windermere today after visiting the new Windermere Children garden at the Lakes School.

Two things of interest- I suggest a diversion to St Mary's Church, Windermere to see the display of knitted poppies on the outside of the Church. Don't know how long they are there for.

I went down to the Steamboat Museum to catch a boat to Ambleside. The crew member there had two queues in place - Ambleside and Bowness.
At least today there were entirely unadvertised services running to Bowness.

I timed the walk through the woods- 20 minutes from the clock to the museum.