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Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum

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“Dove Cottage was home to the Romantic poet William Wordsworth and his family for eight and a half years – his most creative time as a poet. He first encountered Dove Cottage when on a walking tour of the area, which he knew well from his childhood, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Here, Wordsworth wrote many of his ‘romantic’ poems, and explored the crucial link between human experience and the natural world. Place and family were especially important to Wordsworth. His abiding love of the Lake District, and of a settled domestic life, is celebrated in poems such as ‘Home at Grasmere’. In 1799, William and his sister Dorothy moved into Dove Cottage, paying £5 a year in rent. She acted as William's secretary. Her journals, kept at Dove Cottage, clearly illustrate the daily life of the poet and his family. Three years later, William married his childhood companion, Mary Hutchinson, and she joined the ‘extended family’. By then, Thomas de Quincey was a permanent guest at Dove Cottage, and the first three of William and Mary’s five children were born there. Both William and Dorothy took huge pleasure in the garden and orchard which being a relatively modest sized property, housed the only lavatory for the family. When Dove cottage became too small for them all, the Wordsworths and the poet Coleridge moved to Allan Bank in Grasmere. In 1890, The Wordsworth Trust bought the cottage, and opened it to the public. ”

Address:

Grasmere
LA22 9SH
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Opening Hours:

Open all year: daily 9:30-5:30pm

Prices:

Adult: £6.50
Child: £4.10

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