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Extract from the Hawkshead Travel Guides:
Greystone
HAWKSHEAD
, between Coniston and Ambleside, wears its beauty well, its patchwork of cottages and cobbles backed by woods and fells and barely affected by twentieth-century intrusions. This is partly due to the enlightened policy of banning traffic in the centre - huge car parks at the village edge take the strain and when the crowds of day-trippers leave, Hawkshead regains its natural tranquillity.
The village was an important wool market at the time Wordsworth was studying at
Hawkshead Grammar School
(Easter-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-12.30pm & 1.30-5pm, Sun 1-5pm; 2), founded in 1585, whose e...
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