Literary Landmarks
 Wordsworth portrait 1798 |
The Lake District and Cumbria has hosted hundreds of writers and poets - with careful planning and timing we can visit some of England's most loved literary figures.
We
will embark on a circular tour through the spectacular Lake District
National Park to encompass the village of Grasmere, where we will walk
through the countryside and the Village that inspired our most famous
of poets William Wordsworth.
You will have the opportunity to see four of his homes and enjoy readings
from works by William and the writings of his sister
Dorothy Wordsworth.
We will then move onto Keswick, take lunch by the lakeside and in the town, see Greta Hall, the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and poet Lauriat Robert Southey and historic and scenic Crosthwaite Church.
Our next stop is Mirehouse, a historic house with "the warmest family welcome in the North of England", where Lord Tennyson spent his honeymoon in the 19th century and where Lord Melvyn Bragg drafted many of his novels in the 20th Century. You will love the setting on the shores of Bassenthwaite Lake, the wild flower meadow, the walled garden, the honeybee exhibition and the plentiful sheltered seating.
We will walk along the shores of the Lake and visit the tiny St. Begas Chapel before returning to the car for a short journey via Bassenthwaite Village to Caldbeck Village - where the song Do Ya Ken John Peal was written - for afternoon tea.
Our return journey will take us on the path of William and Dorothy Wordsworth's Tour to Scotland in 1903 via Hesket Newmarket and Mungrisdale before we return via the shores of Ullswater and the place where William composed his famous poem to the Daffodils.
"I
wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze".
