Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum

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    "....Discover Wordsworth’s amazing life by visiting Dove Cottage and exploring the treasures of the Wordsworth Trust’s collection in the Wordsworth Museum....In 1799, William Wordsworth fell in love with Dove Cottage and Grasmere whilst on a walking tour of the Lake District. Within a few months, he had set up home here in the hamlet of Town End with his sister Dorothy. It was whilst living here that Wordsworth produced the most famous and best-loved of his poems and Dorothy wrote her fascinating Grasmere journal...."
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    Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
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    Link: https://wordsworth.org.uk/
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 5 years, 10 months ago
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