| The village of Grasmere, Cumbria, England is a popular | | | | gardening, though he was Great Britain's Poet |
| tourist spot due to its central location in the country's | | | | Laureate at the time. |
| Lake District. Currently, it has a population of around | | | | Perhaps the modern day's most famous part-time |
| 1,500 people. The town also shares its name with the | | | | inhabitant of Grasmere is the rock star Sting and his |
| nearby lake, and it is located in the central part of the | | | | wife, Trudie Styler. Other personages of note have |
| county of Cumbria. | | | | included, among others, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who |
| Grasmere sits near to the presence of Helm Crag, a | | | | is said to have developed more than a few of the |
| small and rocky hill which draws several nicknames | | | | stanzas to his poem "The Rime of the Ancient |
| from the shapes of the outcroppings and rock | | | | Mariner" while also staying at Dove Cottage. |
| formations on the hill. The town is also famous for | | | | The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of |
| being one of the homes of the poet William | | | | Cumbria, in the northwestern part of the country, |
| Wordsworth, who had two properties in Grasmere. | | | | currently has a population of around 500,000 people. It |
| Dove Cottage is the spot where Wordsworth is said | | | | came into being in 1974 as a result of the Local |
| to have written much of his finest literary work. | | | | Government Act of 1972. It is also the third largest |
| The other one of the two homes of the poet is Rydal | | | | ceremonial county by land mass in all of England. It has |
| Mount, which is located on one of the town's hillsides. | | | | a picturesque Irish Sea coastline, and is predominantly |
| Wordsworth wrote none of his poetry while resident | | | | rural in nature. Both Grasmere and this county are |
| there, preferring instead to concentrate on his | | | | typical examples of English life and living. |