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William Wordsworth: Afternoon Half Day Tour with an Expert Guide
Duration
3 hours
Overview
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This tour takes you to:
• Grasmere Village.
• Church Stile the former inn where William Wordsworth, his brother John and fellow romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge stayed for several days during their Lake District tour in 1797.
• Grasmere Gingerbread Shop where Sarah Nelson invented the world famous "Grasmere Gingerbread" in 1854.
• The Wordsworth family graves.
• St Oswald's Church where the Wordsworth family worshipped.
• Dove Cottage where William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived from 1799 to 1808.
• Views of Grasmere, the beautiful lake the Wordsworths knew so well.
• Rydal Mount William Wordsworth's best loved family home from 1813 to his death in 1850.
• Rydal Hall Gardens where Wordsworth admired the waterfall from the "grot" viewing house.
• Rydal Church built on the site chosen by William Wordsworth which also inspired two of his poems.
• Dora's Field bought by William Wordsworth in 1826.
• Views of Rydal Water, one of the smaller lakes.
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