Winter Tour of Romantic Poets Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge locations

This Winter tour takes you to the fascinating places associated with the Romantic poets of Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge in the beautiful Lake District landscape. Drive through the stunning scenery for a glimpse of the hall where Southey and Coleridge lived and on to the quintessentially English churchyard to see Southey’s grave and memorial within the church. Following in the poets’ footsteps, visit 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. Entry is included.

Head to Rydal Mount to see the family home where he lived for 37 years and died in 1850. If Rydal is open on the day of your visit there is time to buy an entry ticket and explore the delightful interior. Visit the beautiful and tranquil Rydal Hall Gardens to 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 mossy banks of a wooded garden. The oldest viewing house in the country, from 1669, is sited below the lower fall. Finish the day at Rydal Church and Dora’s Field, planted by the poet in memory of his daughter.