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About Grasmere
A little way from the main road from Ambleside to Keswick lies the village of Grasmere, a cluster of mainly grey buildings in a shallow valley beneath a ring of rounded hills. Although many of the present buildings date from the 19th Century, the village is much older and was in existence as early as the 7th Century, when St Oswald reputedly preached there. The annual Rush Bearing, held each August, is an old custom dating from medieval times when church floors were strewn with rushes. The present church dates from the 13th Century and it is here that William Wordsworth is buried. The poet’s grave is marked by a simple slate slab. Wordsworth spent a large part of his life in and…...
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