The Lancaster and Morecambe area is widely regarded as the 'Gateway to the Lakes'. One of Britain's most beautiful regions, the South Lakes can easily be reached from the Lancaster area, by train, bus or car.

Grasmere was once the home to William Wordsworth.

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Grasmere Tourist Information Centre
Red Bank Road
Grasmere
Cumbria
LA22 9SW
Tel: +44 (0) 15394 35245
Fax: +44 (0) 15394 35057
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• The Wordsworth & Grasmere Museum and Wordsworth Trust
The Wordworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere Cumbria LA22 9SH
Open: 9.30am to 5.30pm daily. Last tickets are sold at 5.00pm. The Trust is closed 24 - 26 December.

Home of poet William Wordsworth (see also Wordsworth's Lake District site). The Wordsworth Trust exists to be a living memorial to the life and poetry of William Wordsworth and his contemporaries, serving, in the words of the first Trustees, 'lovers of English poetry from all over the world'. Its focus is Dove Cottage and the hamlet of Town End, Grasmere, a place and a landscape at the centre of the English Lake District where the poet lived, wrote and found inspiration.