A Literary Lake District

Lake District Writers
Beatrix Potter | William Wordsworth | John Ruskin

William Wordworth

Born and bred in his beloved Lake District, the landscape deeply affected Wordsworth's imagination and gave him a love of nature. Visit Wordsworth House, Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount, and of course experience the sheer poetry of nature which inspired so much in this romantic poet.

Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere

Dove Cottage was Wordsworth’s home until 1808; eight years of ‘… plain living, but high thinking’, during which Wordsworth produced what are now regarded as his finest works. It is through his sister Dorothy’s journals, kept at Dove Cottage, that the daily life of the poet and his family is illustrated so clearly.
Telephone 015394 35544 | www.wordsworth.org.uk

Wordsworth House, Cockermouth

A fine Georgian town house, the birthplace and childhood home of William Wordsworth.
Telephone 01900 820884 | www.nationaltrust.org.uk