Dove Cottage
William Wordsworth's home is the only place in the world to see his personal belongings.
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Dove Cottage Details
William Wordsworth came across his first Grasmere home by chance as he and his brother John walked along this lane with his fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in late 1799. He and his sister Dorothy moved in just a few weeks later. The cottage had once been an inn, the "Dove and Olive Bough". It was now to be the Wordsworths' home for the next eight years. In 1802 William married Mary Hutchinson and three of their five children were born here. It was in this little cottage, at times "crammed edge full" with people, in the heart of the remote Lake District, that William Wordsworth wrote some of the greatest poetry in the English language and Dorothy kept her famous "Grasmere Journal", now on display in the Museum. Step into Dove Cottage to get a sense of that time: stone floors, dark panelled rooms, glowing coal fires and the family's own belongings. Little has changed in the house since the Wordsworths' lived here. A stroll in the Dove Cottage garden reveals a place of refuge, meditation and inspiration. It was, wrote Wordsworth, "the work of our own hands". Here they planted flowers and vegetables, watched birds and butterflies and, most importantly, read, talked and wrote poetry. Grid Reference: NY 34176 07020 Address (near): Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Ambleside LA22 9SH, UK
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Wordsworth Museum
The Wordsworth Museum is where you will discover the greatest collection of the Wordsworths' letters, journals and poems in the world.
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Jerwood Centre, Grasmere
The Jerwood Centre, adjacent to the Wordsworth Museum, is an award-winning building holding the manuscripts, books and paintings not on show in the museum. It was opened in 2005 by the poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.
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Grasmere Sports
The Annual Grasmere Lakeland Sports, now celebrating more than 165 years of existence, has been a regular annual event since 1868, unbroken except for the two periods of the First and Second World Wars.
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Wordsworth's Grave
St. Oswald's Church is the final resting place of the renowned Romantic poet William Wordsworth.
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Grasmere
One of the smaller lakes in the Lake District, great for swimming and paddling.
