2b. Easedale Tarn to Grasmere Walk in Cumbria

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Walking below the hills around Easedale Tarn.

Beauty personified, even on a 'mixed weather' day!

Lots of golden coloured bracken - looks great now in winter, but awful in the summer.

The pictures can speak for themselves.

 Looking across Easedale Tarn.

Looking down to Grasmere before returning to the village.

Excellent walking country!

Returning by Sour Milk Gill.

Herdwick ? sheep.

Easedale Beck approaching Grasmere.

Back to New Bridge again.

Easedale Beck with Sour Milk Gill in the left far distance.

Walking in the late afternoon is atmospheric as any time in the day.

The ancient Parish Church at Grasmere is dedicated to St Oswald.

The churchyard of Grasmere Parish Church. Eight of the yew trees in the graveyard were planted by the Wordsworths. This entrance is near the famous original Sarah Nelson's Grasmere Gingerbread shop.

On the right, the gravestone of William Wordsworth 1850 and Mary Wordsworth 1859 and on the right the gravestone of their daughter Dora 1847 who was the wife of Edward Quillinan.

The gravestones of William Wordsworth 1885 & Fanny Wordsworth 1888, Dorothy Wordsworth 1855 and John Wordsworth brother of William and Dorothy.

The bridge over the river in Grasmere village.

Inside Grasmere Parish Church dedicated to St Oswald.

 

A few fragments of medieval glass survive.

The finely carved wooden pulpit, oak?

Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum

Dove Cottage	A worthwhile visit about the poet William Wordsworth
Library and Research Centre	The guided tours of Dove Cottage is a good start before entering the museum and gallery. The museum and research library are housed in a modern 'traditional' stone building with an attached 'Rotunda' accessed by Wilf's Cafe caters for those requiring freshments - lovely meals of good food freshly prepared, snacks, tea and coffee etc. Across the road is the Daffodil Hotel and Spa
View from the gangway across to the Rotunda	Daffodil Hotal and Spa
Wilf's at Dove Cottage	Great food and atmosphere

 

Goodbye Grasmere and thanks kids for the primary school art display by the 'car-park' aka school playground. The art is clearly influenced by the surroundings, and, is this painting to the point of abstraction? as is the work of the northern artist Peter Hicks?

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