Grasmere
Grasmere is one of the smaller lakes of the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. It gives its name to the village of Grasmere, famously associated with the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth, which is immediately to the north of the lake.Photo: Noface1, Public domain.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Dove Cottage and St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere.
Dove Cottage
Museum
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Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking".
St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere
Church
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St Oswald's Church is an active Anglican parish church in the village of Grasmere, in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building and is notable for associations with the poet William Wordsworth and his family, and for its annual ceremony of rushbearing.
Allan Bank
Manor estate
Allan Bank is a grade II listed two-storey villa standing on high ground slightly to the west of Grasmere village in the heart of the Lake District. It is best known for being from 1808 to 1811 the home of William Wordsworth, but it was also occupied…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grasmere and Kelbarrow.
Grasmere
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Grasmere is a lakeside village in the Lake District National Park, best known as the home to poet William Wordsworth.
Kelbarrow
Locality
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Kelbarrow is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located in close proximity to Grasmere, with views of Grasmere Lake.
Elterwater
Village
Elterwater is a village in the English Lake District and the county of Cumbria. The village lies half a mile north-west of the lake of Elter Water, from which it derives its name.
Grasmere
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Cumbria, England
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Grasmere” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Grasmere (lanaw sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Grasmere”
- Chinese: “格拉斯米爾湖”
- Dutch: “Grasmere”
- French: “Grasmere”
- German: “Grasmere”
- Italian: “Grasmere”
- Japanese: “グラスミア”
- Japanese: “グラスミア湖”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grasmere Lake”
- Russian: “Грасмир (озеро, Англия)”
- Russian: “Грасмир”
- Swedish: “Grasmere”
- Venetian: “Grasmere”
- Western Panjabi: “گراسمیئر”
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