Not just daffodils – Wordsworth Country makes a comeback for literary tourism

An app and a 19th-century advertising slogan will guide visitors to the places that inspired poet’s famous lines

On the old hillside road linking Grasmere and Ambleside, above Windermere, stands a gate that “time out of mind”, as William Wordsworth put it, has been called the Wishing Gate.

This month, while cheering crowds below lined the route of the Tour of Britain cycle race, there were few tourists who made the trip up to see this unimposing wooden gate.

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