Grasmere

Grasmere is the perfect picturesque Lake District Village, best known as the home of William Wordsworth, the famous poet. Grasmere is totally geared towards the holiday maker with plenty of cafes, hotels, accommodation and tourist shops.

Although very quiet in the winter months many of these businesses are now staying open all year round.

Grasmere can be overrun in summer with fields becoming caravan sites and the two main roads into Grasmere congested with coaches offloading many Japanese and other foreign tourists wanting to visit Dove Cottage, the home of William Wordsworth.

The current main road from Ambleside was built in the 1830s; this road can take you all the way through to the Western Coastline of Cumbria via Keswick, Cockermouth all the way to Whitehaven.

Most of the buildings in Grasmere were built around the nineteenth-century, but many of the farms are much older. St Oswald church in Grasmere, dating from the thirteenth-century, is the final resting place of the Wordsworth family – another big attraction for foreign visitors.