William Wordsworth and Dove Cottage Half-Day Tour – England, United Kingdom

EXPERIENCE:

Start your tour as you drive out of Ambleside to the pretty village of Grasmere. Discover the places the Wordsworths spent their daily lives and the village where they lived. See the Wordsworth family graves, one of the most visited places in the Lake District.

Explore Dove Cottage, where Wordsworth lived with his sister, and the Wordsworth Museum. See where William wrote Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Ode to Duty, My Heart Leaps Up, and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, together with parts of his autobiographical epic, The Prelude.

Head to Rydal Mount, the second family home, and take the option to explore. Alternatively, visit the beautiful and tranquil Rydal Hall Gardens. See the sculpture path throughout the grounds, and hear the sound of rushing water running over a series of high waterfalls down a rocky ravine, through the rocky banks of a wooded garden. The oldest viewing house in the country, from 1669, is sited below the lower fall.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Visit Grasmere Village
Shop in Grasmere Gingerbread Store
See St Oswald’s Church and the Wordsworth family graves
Step into Dove Cottage & the Wordsworth Museum, Wordsworth’s first Grasmere home

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