Background
Grasmere is located in Cumbria, England. It was once home to William Wordsworth who called it “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found.” To provide perspective, it has a modest population of 1,029. Despite it's small size, Gramere is renowned for its Rushbearing Ceremony in which a procession travels through the village with bearings comprised of rushes and flowers; festive music accompanies the procession. In all, Grasmere is a quaint English town popular amongst tourists seeking an idyllic English countryside retreat.
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Unsurprisingly, in the provided excerpt from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, Grasmere, once the home of the Wordsworths, is referenced: “Reached Dumfries at about nine o’clock—market-day; met crowds of people on the road, and every one had a smile for us and our car . . . . The inn was a large house, and tolerably comfortable; Mr. Rogers and his sister, whom we had seen at our own cottage at Grasmere a few days before, had arrived there that same afternoon on their way to the Highlands; but we did not see them till the next morning, and only for about a quarter of an hour.”