A few miles above the ruins of this Abbey, on the banks of the River Wye, which runs down the border of Wales and England, Wordsworth wrote one of his most famous poems in 1798.  This might have been the location.

The house to which Rawnsley retired in 1915 before his death in 1920; Wordsworth brought his family to this house from 1808 through 1811, before relocating to Rydal Mount for the rest of his life.

Where Rawnsley served as vicar from 1883 until retirement in 1915.

Where John Ruskin (1819-1900) spent the remainder of his life from 1871.  Inspired by Wordsworth, whom he reportedly read daily throughout life, Ruskin was nonetheless later critical of Wordsworth's inward focus.  He gave more direct attention to wedding an aesthetic and spiritual reformation to alternative arts of dwelling to resist wasteful, ecologically violent industrialization.

Where William and Dorothy Wordsworth settled into their first home in Grasmere vale, they valley in which they would spend the rest of their lives.  They lived in Dove Cottage from 1799 to 1808.

Where in 1878 Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920) was appointed as vicar, or head priest, for the local Church of England congregation. 

Where William (1770-1850) and Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) were born.