Wordsworth Grasmere
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Once an inn called the Dove and Olive, this Grade I listed building became William Wordsworth's home during his greatest years as a poet.
William Wordsworth came across Dove Cottage by chance during a walk with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his brother John. He instantly fell in love with the little house and within a few weeks he had arranged for he and his sister Dorothy to move in. It was in Dove Cottage, at times ‘crammed edge full’ with people, that Wordsworth wrote some of his greatest poetry. Dorothy also kept her famous Grasmere Journal here.
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