Dove House

Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England which I really like.

It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking".

William throughout  this period wrote much of the poetry for which he is remembered today, including his "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. 

William Wordsworth married his wife Mary in 1802, and she and her sister joined the Wordsworths at Dove Cottage. 

The family quickly expanded, with the arrival of three children in four years, and the Wordsworths left Dove Cottage in 1808 to seek larger lodgings.

Today it has a Grade 1 listing and sees some 70,000 visitors per year.