The Wordsworth House and Gardens are a historic home and garden in Cockermouth, Cumbria. The house was once the family home and
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The House and Gardens Brantwood is one of the most beautifully located historic houses in the Lake District on the steep eastern
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The atmospheric ruins of Shap Abbey, including a substantial tower, lie in a secluded hollow beside the River Lowther on the National
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The elegant mansion of Mirehouse was built in 1666 and has been owned by the same family since 1688. Modern visitors have
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Furness Abbey was once home to one of the richest and most powerful monastic houses in northern England. The Cistercian monks who
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Pull up into the car park of Levens Hall, five miles south of Kendal on the banks of the River Kent, and
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Holker Hall dates from the sixteenth century, although the attractive red sandstone house that exists today is largely Victorian, built after a
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The tiny National Trust property of Bridge House is located to the north of Ambleside town centre. Spanning the waters of Stock
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St Oswald’s Church is another Grasmere site that is closely associated with William Wordsworth, and one to which fans of the Romantic
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Dove Cottage is the house most often associated with the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and yet he and his family lived there
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