Grasmere Cottages

Starting at the churchyard where Wordsworth is buried, you pass Dove Cottage, his Grasmere home, and follow a path to Rydal known as the "coffin route". Like other "coffin routes" around Britain, it was used to carry bodies from a parish that didn't have a From the outside the museum, perched on a hillside next to Wordsworth's retreat at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, looks very much the rustic 19th-century stone coach house it once was. But inside is a surprisingly sophisticated museum carefully illustrating the GRASMERE, England - Most people come to this tiny village in the Lake District to see Dove Cottage, where William Wordsworth lived and wrote, or the graves of the poet and several of his family members in the cemetery of St. Oswald's Church. But Grasmere These words from William Wordsworth’s poem Michael are at the heart of the work of the Wordsworth Trust: giving “youthful poets” the chance to continue Wordsworth’s creative legacy during a visit to Grasmere of Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth He and his wife Angela, 50, left careers in teaching to pursue a future as chocolate makers. In August, they opened The Chocolate Cottage in Grasmere, Cumbria, selling homemade sweets and cakes. “There are things we News of the disaster reached London two days later, and Richard Wordsworth, eldest of the five Wordsworth siblings, a lawyer in the city, immediately dispatched a letter to the little cottage at Grasmere in the Lake District in which William and his .

Hidden at the head of the beautiful Tilberthwaite valley, one mile from the main road, Tilberthwaite Farm Cottage enjoys magnificent views semi-natural woodland. Grasmere lies in the heart of the English Lake District National Park, just north of Paul Kleian, head of marketing and communications for the Wordsworth Trust, which owns Dove Cottage, says: “Wordsworth wrote that, after he left Grasmere, his creative spark had gone. Thomas de Quincy lived here and other literary figures followed Now, in the first phase of a housing project, the keys to her former Grasmere home are being presented to a local couple. Tomorrow, trust president Lord Inglewood will hand over Cragfoot Cottage to Mark Broomhead, 45, and Lisa Timpson, 36, whose family Wordsworth and his brother were walking in the English Lakes in late 1799 with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge when they came upon the modest Dove Cottage in Grasmere The two homes are at opposite ends of the Coffin Route, a footpath over .

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