Despite its quantity of visitors, there is a stillness to the Lake District that prevails, at least at dawn and dusk. Writing from Dove Cottage on 17 May, 1800, Dorothy Wordsworth noted: ‘Grasmere was very solemn in the last glimpse of twilight; it calls home the heart to quietness.’ The meditative pull of water, mountains and woods is now more valued than ever.
The Lake District
May 03, 2022
2 minutes
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