At St. Oswald Church in Grasmere Are The Wordsworth Graves: Just as Stratford-upon-Avon is Shakespeare country, Grasmere and the Lake District is Wordsworth country. Born in the Lake District in 1770, William Wordsworth described the area as ‘the loveliest spot that man hath ever found'.  A lover of nature, and inspired by the beauty of the Vale of Grasmere, he spent much of his life in the area walking and writing some of his finest poetry. On our Grasmere stop, we visited St. Oswald's … [Read more...]