Grasmere

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) described Grasmere, in the Lake District, as ‘the most loveliest spot that man hath found’. In December 1799, he and his sister Dorothy moved into Dove Cottage, close to the lake, where they lived until May 1808, and where William wrote much of his finest poetry.

English lake and village in the Lake District, Cumbria, associated with many writers; population (2001) 3,340. The English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived at Dove Cottage (now a museum) from 1799 to 1808, Thomas de Quincey later made his home in the same house, and both Samuel Coleridge and Wordsworth are buried in the churchyard of St Oswald's.