Experts' Choice Award Wordsworth House and Garden
What the experts agree on
Wordsworth's atmospheric childhood home in Cockermouth offers genuine insight into the poet's formative years with fewer crowds than rival Lake District literary sites, preserved authentically as it was in the 18th century.
“It receives far fewer visitors than either Dove Cottage or Rydal Mount, but Wordsworth’s boyhood home in Cockermouth provides a fascinating insight into the poet’s formative years.”
– The Telegraph
Fodor's "Cockermouth was the birthplace of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, whose childhood home was this 18th-century town house, carefully kept as it would have been in their day." Full review
