Grasmere
Grasmere is a lakeside village in the Lake District National Park, best known as the home to poet William Wordsworth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “Grasmere, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dove Cottage and Allan Bank.
Dove Cottage
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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".
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…
Silver How
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Silver How is a fell in the English Lake District, standing over the village of Grasmere. How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rydal and Elterwater.
Rydal
Village
Photo: Cmyk, Public domain.
Rydal is a village in Cumbria, England. It is a small cluster of houses, a hotel, and St Mary's Church, on the A591 road midway between Ambleside and Grasmere.
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.
Chapel Stile
Village
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chapel Stile is a village in Cumbria, England, located approximately 5 miles northwest of Ambleside, within the Langdale valley. It contains a school, Holy Trinity church, the Co-op and the Wainwrights' Inn, and a quarry is located in the vicinity.
Grasmere
- Category: locality
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.4594° or 54° 27′ 34″ northLongitude
-3.0244° or 3° 1′ 28″ westElevation
236 feet (72 metres)Open location code
9C6RFX5G+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 25255608OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Grasmere” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Grasmere (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Grasmere”
- Catalan: “Grasmere”
- Cebuano: “Grasmere (lungsod sa Inglatera)”
- Cebuano: “Grasmere”
- Chinese: “格拉斯米尔”
- Chinese: “格拉斯米爾”
- Dutch: “Grasmere”
- French: “Grasmere”
- German: “Grasmere”
- Irish: “Grasmere”
- Italian: “Grasmere”
- Japanese: “グラスミア”
- Persian: “گرسمیر”
- Polish: “Grasmere”
- Russian: “Грасмир”
- Slovenian: “Grasmere”
- Spanish: “Grasmere”
- Swedish: “Grasmere”
- Welsh: “Grasmere”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Grasmere”. Photo: alancleaver, CC BY 2.0.