Dove Cottage
Dove Cottage - Day 110 - Daily Content Challenge
Dove Cottage is best known as the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 until 1808.
Dove Cottage was built in the early 17th C and for over 170 years was an inn. The Dove and Olive Inn closed in 1793 and Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved in six years later.
The house is located on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England.
Wordsworth married his childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson, in 1802 and their three oldest children, John, Dora, and Thomas were born at Dove Cottage.
When William and his sister Dorothy visited Glencoyne Park in April of 1802, William was inspired to write his most famous poem, ‘Daffodils’. Here is the first stanza.
            Daffodils
               by William Wordsworth
      I wandered lonely as a cloud
     That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
     When all at once I saw a crowd,
     A host, of golden daffodils;
     Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
     Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Today the cottage remains largely unchanged from Wordsworth’s day. The Wordsworth Trust has kept the cottage open to the public since July 1891. As a tourist attraction, Dove Cottage receives about 70,000 visitors each year.
I had a chance to visit Dove Cottage and the William Wordsworth Museum along with my sister, Harriet, on a motor trip from Windsor to Scotland about 20 years ago.
This bell was my souvenir of our visit.
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