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Grasmere, village, Cumbria, NW England, in the Lake District, near Lake Grasmere. Dove Cottage was the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808; the Wordsworth museum is also there, and the Jerwood Center is nearby. The Wordsworth family and the writer Hartley Coleridge are buried in the churchyard of St. Oswald's. Thomas De Quincey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also lived in Grasmere.
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Grasmere is a village in central Cumbria, England. Before 1974 it lay within the county of Westmorland, it is also the name of the adjacent lake. Grasmere's position in the centre of the English Lake District, as well as its connections with the Lake Poets, has made it popular as a tourist destination. The poet William Wordsworth, who lived in Grasmere for fourteen years, described it as "the loveliest spot that man hath ever found".
The village is overlooked by the small rocky hill of Helm Crag, popularly known as The Lion and the Lamb or the Old Lady at the Piano, depending on which side you view it from. These names are derived from...more »
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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785–1859, English essayist. In 1802 he ran away from school and tramped about the country, eventually settling in London. His family soon found him and entered him (1803) ...
