Billy Plantation

Places of Interest

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".

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.

Allan Bank

Manor estate

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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

Grasmere

Photo: alancleaver, CC BY 2.0.

Grasmere is a lakeside village in the Lake District National Park, best known as the home to poet William Wordsworth.

Ambleside

Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ambleside is a town in Cumbria. It is located at the head of Windermere, England’s largest lake, within the Lake District National Park.

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.

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