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William Wordsworth and Dove Cottage Half-Day Tour
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William Wordsworth and Dove Cottage Half-Day Tour

By English Lakes Tours
10 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$193 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview
  • Visit Grasmere Village
  • Shop in Grasmere Gingerbread Store
  • See St Oswald's Church and the Wordsworth family graves
  • Step into Dove Cottage & the Wordsworth Museum, Wordsworth's first Grasmere home

Activity location

    • Windermere
    • Windermere, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Bowness on Windermere Terminal, Bowness-on-Windermere, Windermere LA23 3HQ, UK | Bowness pick-up is at the cruise pier at the lakeside in Bowness.
    • Bowness-on-Windermere, England, United Kingdom

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Morning Tour from Ambleside
  • Activity duration is 3 hours and 30 minutes3h 30m3h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 9:20 am
Price details
AU$193.16 x 2 AdultsAU$386.32

Total
Price is AU$386.32

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry to Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum
  • What's includedWhat's included Guide
  • What's includedWhat's included Separate driver and guide for your safety on the Lake District's narrow roads
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntry to Rydal Mount (available for purchase)

What you can expect

Start your tour as you drive out of Ambleside to the pretty village of Grasmere. Discover the places the Wordsworths spent their daily lives and the village where they lived. See the Wordsworth family graves, one of the most visited places in the Lake District.

Explore Dove Cottage, where Wordsworth lived with his sister, and the Wordsworth Museum. See where William wrote Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Ode to Duty, My Heart Leaps Up, and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, together with parts of his autobiographical epic, The Prelude.

Head to Rydal Mount, the second family home, and take the option to explore. Alternatively, visit the beautiful and tranquil Rydal Hall Gardens. See the sculpture path throughout the grounds, and hear the sound of rushing water running over a series of high waterfalls down a rocky ravine, through the rocky banks of a wooded garden. The oldest viewing house in the country, from 1669, is sited below the lower fall.

Location

Activity location

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    • Windermere
    • Windermere, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Bowness on Windermere Terminal, Bowness-on-Windermere, Windermere LA23 3HQ, UK | Bowness pick-up is at the cruise pier at the lakeside in Bowness.
    • Bowness-on-Windermere, England, United Kingdom
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    • Windermere, Windermere LA23 1AH, UK | Windermere pick-up is Outside Windermere Railway Station.
    • Windermere, England, United Kingdom
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    • 3 Kelsick Rd, Ambleside LA22 0BZ, UK | Departs from the corner of King Street next to Ishaas Indian Eatery, LA22 0BZ
    • Ambleside, England, United Kingdom