{"id":477,"date":"2020-01-25T16:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/?p=477"},"modified":"2021-01-10T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T15:19:04","slug":"5-of-the-best-william-wordsworth-locations-in-the-lake-district-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/discover-the-lake-district\/5-of-the-best-william-wordsworth-locations-in-the-lake-district-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of the best William Wordsworth locations in the Lake District Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wordsworth, Poetry, Romanticism, Nature &#8211; all words synonymous with the English Lake District. You can&#8217;t help but quote half remembered bits of poems you learned at school and now, standing surrounded by the landscape William Wordsworth knew and loved, suddenly it all makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>William Wordsworth believed that in our lives there are special moments or experiences, \u201cspots of time\u201d, where we can go beyond normal reality and appreciate the wider world of nature. In years to come such \u201cspots of time\u201d when recalled can help us get through difficult times. He believed that nature could almost act as a parent or teacher, in influencing our feelings and behaviour. Several of these \u201cspots of time\u201d are described in his autoiographical poem, <em>The Prelude<\/em>, particularly those dealing with his childhood.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-483\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-483\" src=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Portrait-of-William-Wordsworth-by-Benjamin-Robert-2-1841-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Wordsworth Poet Lake District Dove Cottage Grasmere Rydal\" width=\"540\" height=\"661\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert, 1841.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->As you travel around the Lake District, 250 years after he was born, you can literally walk through Wordsworth&#8217;s poems, relive his experiences, see what he saw and feel the emotions written into his beautiful poetry. These 5 locations are like stepping back in time, back into his life.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff5f00;\">1. Wordsworth House, Cockermouth<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-486\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-486\" src=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wordsworth-house-and-garden-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"Wordsworth House Cockermouth birthplace of William Wordsworth\" width=\"608\" height=\"243\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wordsworth House where William and Dorothy were born.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is where it all started, literally. William and his sister Dorothy along with their three siblings, Richard, John and Christopher, were all born here. At the time it was a pretty swanky place but everything went pear shaped for the Wordsworth children when their mother Ann died i<span class=\"st\">n March 1778. It was a devastating blow. William, who later described his mother as the \u2018heart and hinge of all our learnings and our loves\u2019, was not quite eight. He wrote that their father \u2018never recovered his usual cheerfulness of mind\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\"> Dorothy, William\u2019s closest playmate, was sent to live with Ann\u2019s cousin in Halifax, and Richard and William became pupils at Hawkshead Grammar School, returning home only in the holidays. It would be nine years before William and Dorothy met again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">He later wrote of his early childhood in Cockermouth <\/span>and the intense happiness he and his sister Dorothy knew in the house with its walled garden and terrace overlooking the river Derwent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-490\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-490\" src=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/A-border-of-shrub-roses-at-Wordsworth-house-Credit-National-Trust_Val-Corbett-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Wordsworth House Garden Cockermouth William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth\" width=\"941\" height=\"589\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The garden at Wordsworth House.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; C National Trust, Val Corbett.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the 18th century, theorists such as Locke and Rousseau advised parents that children should be allowed to behave naturally and play in the open air, rather than being cosseted and restricted as in previous centuries. William and Dorothy were allowed a degree of freedom to roam and play and that experience of childhood was critical to the man he was to become.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-492\" style=\"width: 782px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-492\" src=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Cockermouth-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cockermouth William Wordsworth\" width=\"782\" height=\"521\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Cockermouth and River Derwent in 1820.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>William relived the memory of his childhood at Wordsworth House in Book One of <em>The Prelude<\/em> writing of the River Derwent:<\/p>\n<div id=\"wrap_362490808\">\n<div class=\"o-site\">\n<div id=\"mainContent\" class=\"o-site-bd \" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"o-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"c-tier c-mix-tier_offsetAsymmetricalShort\">\n<article class=\"o-article\">\n<div class=\"o-article-bd\">\n<div class=\"o-vr o-vr_9x\">\n<div class=\"o-grid\">\n<div class=\"o-grid-col o-grid-col_9of12 o-mix-grid-col_offset1of12\">\n<div class=\"o-vr o-vr_12x\">\n<div class=\"c-feature\">\n<div class=\"c-feature-bd\">\n<div class=\"o-poem isActive\" data-view=\"PoemView\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2014Was it for this<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>That one, the fairest of all Rivers, lov&#8217;d<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>To blend his murmurs with my Nurse&#8217;s song,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And from his alder shades and rocky falls,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>That flow&#8217;d along my dreams? For this, didst Thou,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>O Derwent! travelling over the green Plains<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Near my &#8216;sweet Birthplace&#8217;, didst thou, beauteous Stream<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Make ceaseless music through the night and day<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Which with its steady cadence, tempering<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Our human waywardness, compos&#8217;d my thoughts<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>To more than infant softness, giving me,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Among the fretful dwellings of mankind,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A knowledge, a dim earnest, of the calm<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>That Nature breathes among the hills and groves.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When, having left his Mountains, to the Towers<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Of Cockermouth that beauteous River came,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Behind my Father&#8217;s House he pass&#8217;d, close by,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Along the margin of our Terrace Walk.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>He was a Playmate whom we dearly lov&#8217;d.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh! many a time have I, a five years&#8217; Child,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A naked Boy, in one delightful Rill,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A little Mill-race sever&#8217;d from his stream,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Made one long bathing of a summer&#8217;s day,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bask&#8217;d in the sun, and plunged, and bask&#8217;d again<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alternate all a summer&#8217;s day, or cours&#8217;d<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Over the sandy fields, leaping through groves<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Of yellow grunsel, or when crag and hill,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The woods, and distant Skiddaw&#8217;s lofty height,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Were bronz&#8217;d with a deep radiance, stood alone<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Beneath the sky, as if I had been born<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>On Indian Plains, and from my Mother&#8217;s hut<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Had run abroad in wantonness, to sport,<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A naked Savage, in the thunder shower.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" style=\"width: 882px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-495\" src=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-River-Derwent-seen-from-the-riverside-opposite-Cockermouth-town-centre.-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"River Derwent Cockermouth William Wordsworth\" width=\"882\" height=\"588\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The River Derwent at Cockermouth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-side-margins\">\n<article id=\"article\" class=\"content content--article content--pillar-news content--type-article section-uk-news tonal tonal--tone-news\" role=\"main\" data-test-id=\"article-root\">\n<div class=\"content__main tonal__main tonal__main--tone-news\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column content__main-column--article js-content-main-column \">\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p>Today, Wordsworth House and its garden is owned by the National Trust and a visit here evokes the spirit of the age in which Wordsworth and his sister grew up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" style=\"width: 722px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-498\" src=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Wordsworth-House-interior-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wordsworth House Cockermouth William Dorothy Wordsworth\" width=\"722\" height=\"481\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior evokes the period when William and Dorothy would have known the house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The house is presented as it would have been when the Wordsworths lived here in the 1770s, with real food on the table and a real fire in the grate. You can take a guided or audio tour, listen to a talk or explore the working kitchen and other rooms at your own pace \u2013 several are hands-on. On Wednesdays and Saturdays in term-time and throughout the school holidays, costumed maids are hard at work and always keen to stop and chat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-497\" style=\"width: 784px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-497\" src=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/around-and-about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Wordsworth-House-Kitchen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wordsworth House Cockermouth Kitchen\" width=\"784\" height=\"588\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kitchen at William Wordsworth&#8217;s childhood home, The National Trust&#8217;s Wordsworth House and Garden, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/lakeland-poets\">visit Wordsworth House on our Full Day Wordsworth Tour <\/a><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can also visit by creating your own<a href=\"https:\/\/englishlakestours.com\/private-tour-lake-poets\"> Personal Lake District Experience <\/a><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wordsworth, Poetry, Romanticism, Nature &#8211; all words synonymous with the English Lake District. 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