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1. Wastdale Village and Valley

Wastdale Village and Valley

Description: "The Wastdale river flows through a beautiful valley into West Water, a lake three miles long by a half mile in width. This is the western part of the lake district, approaching the Irish Sea Coast. The elevation of this lake is only 200 feet above sea level. The village is situated near the foot of the valley."

2. Dove cottage, poet Wordsworth's Grasmere house

Dove cottage, poet Wordsworth's Grasmere house

Description: "This was the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808 and was called 'Dove Cottage.' Here he penned 'The Excursion' and 'The Prelude.' Almost every point in the neighborhood is celebrated in his poetry."

3. Solitary's Cottage

Solitary's Cottage

Description: Blea Tarn is a tiny lake jewel set high in the rugged hills to the southwest of Thirlmere Lake. This was the haunt of Wordsworth’s “Solitary”, chief figure in his poem, “The Excursion.” The picture is of 'Solitary’s' cottage, of which Wordsworth said: 'It seemed the house of poverty and toil.'

4. Wordsworth's Residence - Rydal Mount

Wordsworth's Residence - Rydal Mount

Description: "Wordsworth lived in this house from 1813 to his death in 1850. The house is but little changed since the poet lived there. The terrace at the top of the step was a favorite spot of Wordsworth, particularly in the later years of his life. At this home the poet produced some of his most characteristic poetry - short pieces such as 'The Clouds' and 'The Mountain Echo.' From here he made many excursions to find the 'secluded temples of beauty', as he called them, following the ravines of Rydal Head and climbing the great, bleak crags - 'fit home for wild red deer."

5. Nab cottage house of the poet Hartley Coleridge, Rydal Water

Nab cottage house of the poet Hartley Coleridge, Rydal Water

Description: Nab Cottage, built on a projecting rock above Rydal Water, as at one time occupied by Thomas DeQuincey and was also the home of Hartley Coleridge, who died in 1859. It was of this Rydal Lake that Hartley Coleridge wrote: “Soft as a could in yon blue ridge — the mere Seems firm as solid crystal, breathless, clear And motionless, and, to the gazer’s eye, Deeper than ocean, in the immensity Of its vague mountains and unreal sky.”