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Extract from the Cockermouth Travel Guides:
The farming community of
COCKERMOUTH
, midway between the coast and Keswick at the confluence of the Cocker and Derwent rivers, is yet another station on the Wordsworth trail: the
Wordsworth House
on Main Street (Easter-June, Sept & Oct Mon-Fri, 10.30am-4.30pm; July & Aug Mon-Sat, 10.30am-4.30pm; 3; NT) is where William and Dorothy were born and spent their first few years. Some of the original features remain and there are occasional Wordsworthian relics - a chest of drawers here, a pair of candlesticks there - but despite the best endeavours of the enthusiastic staff it's disappointingly lifeless. The rest...
read the whole Cockermouth Travel Guides...
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