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Wordsworth Cottage, Patterdale
Wordsworth Cottage
locality:-   Rooking
locality:-   Patterdale
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY40011602
1Km square:-   NY4016
10Km square:-   NY41


photograph
BLN64.jpg (taken 7.1.2006)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Wordsworth Cottage
item:-  spice cupboard
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WORDSWORTH COTTAGE / / / PATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 452407 / NY4002016013"

hearsay:-  
Thomas Wilkinson, a quaker, was asked by William Wordsworth to arrange the purchase of this farm house, 1806. The price, L1000, was L200 more than Wordsworth was willing to pay and Wilkinson asked Lord Lowther to make up the difference. Wordsworth was embarassed by the arrangement, refused to live here, but let it instead. It was sold in 1834 to a local innkeeper.

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