News about William Wordsworth

Who doesn't love a trip to the garden centre? Whether you're after colourful winter bedding plants for a hanging basket, a new evergreen shrub for the front garden, or simply a nice cup of tea and a scone, a trip to one of these horticultural havens is one of the nation's favourite days out. So, from Cumbria to Cardiff, Essex to Inverness, we've scoured the nations garden centres and rated their plant selections and coffee shops to bring you the very best in the UK.

Prized for its hundreds of sandy beaches, fishing coves and glorious countryside, Cornwall has long been the undisputed champion of staycations and the holiday let market. Last year, official data revealed the county had the highest numbers of holiday homes which attracted 14,230 guests. However, despite these figures, Cornwall is not the most lucrative hotspot for short-term buy-to-let landlords. We reveal the locations that beat it.

Spring is in the air, and there is no better time to stretch your legs and take a breath of fresh air. So here are 20 of Britain's best walks, ranging from a few miles to a dozen, with stunning scenery, peaceful settings, and all done in a day.

PATRICK JEPHSON: The King is known to love poetry, and I'm sure he is familiar with William Wordsworth's Ode To Intimations Of Immortality's opening lines. At a time when meadow, grove, and stream, as well as every common sight, Apparelled in celestial light, the splendor and the freshness of a dream. It's a sad poem but a good one, showing how we can detect the fleeting nature of human life even from childhood. Its elegiac tone seems to be especially appropriate for today's troubled Royal scene.

Thomas Poole House was named after its wealthy owner, who was friends with the pair and even inspired some of their art. A blue plaque in Nether Stowey, Somerset, commemorating the wealthy farmer and tanner's friendship with the two English Romantic poets. The original owners of Poole's bookroom have maintained the building's, which was highlighted in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England, and his Grade II listed home has been well maintained over the years.

They were one of his afternoon radio shows, snippets of trivia from around the world so bizarre that listeners were never quite sure if they were correct or false. These 'factoids' were such a hit feature that the legendary DJ, who died this week at the age of 69, that he wrote two books of his favorites, whether it was discovering the immense shoe size of a celebrity chef or revealing the name of the film with the first flushing toilet.

On the shores of the famous lake, Ashlie McAnally checks in to The Langdale Chase hotel, which is synonymous with author Beatrix Potter and poet William Wordsworth. The Grade II listed building, which was the first residence at Windermere to have electricity, became a hotel in 1930. Its appearance was seen in the 1946 Alfred Hitchcock film The Paradine Case and in 1988 BBC drama Across the Lake, starring Anthony Hopkins. Daniel Thwaites, a hospitality company, acquired the boutique hotel in 2017, which reopened in November after a year-long, multi-million pound renovation.

The 61-year-old poet's distant cousin was once named London's most eligible bachelor by society magazine Tatler. Mr Wordsworth co-founded private investigation firm Raedas in 2016, describing him as a "preeminent figure in intelligence" and a researcher at gathering intelligence in Russia. His interrogation, which is believed to have been sanctioned by MI5, has sent shock waves through Britain's burgeoning 'corporate intelligence' industry.

However, despite a failed attempt to save the house that Save Britain's Heritage launched in 2013, the building's structure may now have deteriorated beyond the point of repair. Save the United Kingdom's Heritage had hoped to reopen the house as a natural tourist attraction that might reveal the story of its turbulent past.

Ghosts, ghouls, and spirits account for more than a quarter of three 18-54-year-olds in the United Kingdom's believe in paranormal belief such as ghosts, ghouls, and spirits. From a church said to have "opened it's doors to hell" to corpses reportedly rising from their graves, Britain is home to many places with a reputation for paranormal sightsings and even Satan worship. Stress Free Car Rental has compiled a list of the eight most popular destinations to visit in this October, if you dare.

As part of the 2023 Travellers' Choice 'Best of the Best' Restaurants Awards, Bougainville's renowned algorithm selects the millions of reviews and ratings collected in a year from travelers around the world, the restaurant has been named as the world's best fine-dining establishment. Ise Sueyoshi, a district of Tokyo, is the second-best restaurant in the global rankings, followed by the Old Stamp House Restaurant in the Lake District, ranked third, making it the top-ranking UK restaurant.

Beryl Purdy, an 86-year-old village stalwart, is suspected of murdering her grandmother in Somerset's country home. David Parish, 36, of no fixed address, is suspected of killing her 86-year-old village stalwart Beryl Purdy. Bez, a churchwarden, was discovered'slumped on the ground in a pool of blood' in her Broomfield home on March 27. The Mental Health Act had originally been sectioned off, but charges were brought back on Tuesday. He was supposed to appear in Taunton Magistrates' Court today charged with the grandmother's murder.

Findmypast experts explored Wordsworth House (right) in Cockermouth, Cumbria, in collaboration with the National Trust, which owns the house. They discovered that, at the time of the 1921 Census, a member of the Wordsworth family was serving as a servant at the house. Annie Wordsworth, a 30-year-old girl of town doctor James Graham, is listed as a 'domestic servant' in the census report (left). Hannah, the mother of two, had been living in the city with her four-year-old son and daughter Gladys, who had never been named William.

Treasures belonging to King Charles' personal decorator who died in a previous year are up for auction for £1.5 million. Every room in late Robert Kime's London flat is an Aladdin's cave of extraordinary works of art, with important works of art displayed alongside fascinating historical furniture and stunning furniture. The hallway alone has an extremely rare 16th century Holbein rug worth £70,000, a £50,000 Ottoman rug, hanging on the wall, as well as a £40,000 William Nedham painting and a 17th-century Indian Mughal carpet worth £25,000 on the floor. Mr Kime died last year at the age of 76, and his family is now selling the entire contents of both his central London townhouse apartment and French holiday home.

It has a burgeoning hotel market. The elegant 1930s Haweswater Hotel has undergone complete restoration, but the parquet floor and art deco interiors remain intact (from £159 a night, haweswaterhotel.com). Inn on the Lake in Ullswater is also renovated, with a massive 75-meter terrace and 46 renovated bedrooms (from £193 a night, lakedistricthotels.net/innonthelake).

Hardknott Pass is a thrilling ride that puts terror into the hearts of cyclists, but even cyclists are able to negotiate its strenuous 33% ramps and hairpins, which is an exciting and nerve-shredding journey. Ted Thornhill had a blast riding it on his road bike, but first had to tame feared Wrynose Pass and Birker Fell.

Tourists have long flocked to great lakes to revel in the waterside serenity, as well as messing about in boats, of course. There is a certain calmness about lakeside life that is quite different from the pleasure of crashing waves of a beach, and many a writer, from Edgar Allan Poe to William Wordsworth, has waxed lyrical about the joys of lakeside life over the years. Here we list the best lakeside destinations to stay in, ranging from Ireland to India, for all budgets.

CRAIG BROWN: A mild-mannered man carried a miniature portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and four tiny pieces of old paper folded over into envelopes on Sunday at the Antiques Roadshow. These envelopes were stamped with the names of three Romantic writers - William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A few wisps of the poet's hair were included in each envelope: keepsakes passed down from generation to generation were tucked into each envelope. Both envelopes were marked S. T. Coleridge, the first of which had dark hair from his youth and the second with snowy-white hair, which was missing from his scalp at his burial.

During Sunday's episode of the Antiques Roadshow, a rather unusual bygone was valued. Members of the public in Cornwall flocked with many treasured items in the hopes of being told they were in possession of something worth a fortune. However, it was items that once belonged to late poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordworth, and Robert Southey that caught the attention of one of the experts.

Where do you go in the Cumbrian hotspot to enjoy some 'wandering lonely as a cloud', as suggested by William Wordsworth, poet and local? Tom Chesshyre, the author of a new book about hiking in the Lake District, shares his advice for some of the best, quiet lakeside walks. 'I've done and enjoyed them all,' he says.

At chef Paul Leonard's Forest Side restaurant, Ailbhe MacMahon dines on an eight-course tasting menu. It's set inside the Forest Side Hotel, a striking Gothic building dating back to the 1850s and built on a wooded hillside near the lake District village of Grasmere.

An 86-year-old grandmother died in her own home, according to police. Bez Purdy (left) a church warden, was found bludgeoned to death at her country home, where police had been alerted to a home invasion that was still in progress. The perpetrator was identified as a missing person by Avon and Somerset Police before Mrs Purdy was discovered dead at her house in Broomfield, near Taunton. According to a police spokesperson, the detained man in his 30s was missing from a mental health unit, but not a secure mental health unit.

Beryl Purdy, a 'highly respected' church warden, is alleged to have been assaulted inside her farmhouse. The 86-year-old grandmother was discovered dead at her country house, where police had been alerted to a robbery that had taken place. According to an eye witness, she had 'clearly been struck hard across the head' and was discovered'slumped on the ground and not moving in a pool of blood.' A local man was arrested in connection with the shooting, sectioned and taken to a secure mental health center.

For the past two years, the Old Stamp House restaurant in Ambleside has been named overall winner of Tripadvisor's 'Best of the Best' Restaurants Awards, receiving gushing praise from almost every customer (1,334 'excellent' reviews out of 1,477 at the time of writing). Ted Thornhill of MailOnline Travel takes the spotlight.