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Wordsworth’s Lake District sanctuary is set to be lovingly restored

‘Two miles I had to walk along the fields/before I reach’d my home. Magnificent/the Morning was, a memorable pomp,/more glorious than I ever had beheld.’ So wrote Wordsworth in ‘The Prelude’, revelling in the joy he took in his everyday walks through the landscape surrounding his home of eight years, Dove Cottage on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District. In honour of the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, the ‘Reimagining Wordsworth’ project aims to enable the cottage’s sensitive restoration, with revamped visitor trails, a new sensory garden and an expanded museum overlooking the fells he loved so much. meg honigmann Dove Cottage will reopen later in the year (www.wordsworth.org.uk).