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	Lake District Attractions Roll your cursor over the interactive map for Lake District tourism and click for attraction information. The lake District offers an ideal holiday cottage destination to explore the many attractions. Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum Visitors to Dove Cottage are offered a guided tour of the house where William Wordsworth wrote his most inspired poetry. He described it as a time of plain living but high thinking and produced his most creative work during the nine years in the cottage.

	Alongside is the award winning Wordsworth Museum with extensive collections of original manuscripts and art works that interpret Wordsworth's life and that of his family and circle, including Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott and De Quincey. Special exhibitions are held in the museum throughout the year. In the 3oW Gallery are challenging exhibitions of contemporary art which link to the same ideas which inspired Wordsworth and the Lake Poets. And the best of contemporary poetry is offered on Tuesday evenings between May and October at the Summer Poetry Readings season. Visit the website to find out more.
	Windermere Lake Cruises Windermere Lake Cruises offer a wide variety of sightseeing tours on Lake Windermere including island cruises A delightful 45 minute sightseeing tour from Bowness Bay to include the magnificent mountain scenery, lovely secluded bays and shore line and inevitably the many wooded islands around the central parts of the lake. Visit the website to find out more.
	Rydal Mount and Gardens - Home to William Wordsworth The Wordsworth Family moved into Rydal Mount in 1813 and rented the house continually for 46 years until the death of Mary Wordsworth in 1859. Rydal Mount was the largest house the Wordsworths lived in and became a much-loved family home. The garden contains a wide variety of rare shrubs and trees and has spectacular views towards both Lake Windermere and Rydal Water. Visit the Website to find out more.