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Lakeland Poets: Wordsworth and his circle at Dove Cottage, Grasmere and Rydal Mount - Full Day All-inclusive Tour
Duration
8 hours
Overview
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You get to see:
• Hawkshead Grammar School where Wordsworth went to school and carved his name on his desk (only on a friday)
• Grasmere Gingerbread Shop where the Victorian cook Sarah Nelson invented Grasmere Gingerbread in 1854
• St Oswald's Church where the Wordsworth family worshiped and whose interior William was so fond of
• Wordsworth Family Graves nestled beneath the yew tree that Wordsworth planted himself
• Dove Cottage the first family home of Wordsworth and where he wrote some of his best poetry
• The Wordsworth House where William Wordsworth was born (not on fridays)
• Rydal Mount & Garden was Wordsworth's best loved family home for the greater part of his life from 1813 to his death in 1850 at the age of 80
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