William Wordsworth's 'daffodils' cottage set for £5m improvement grant

Dove Cottage in Grasmere will use fund to improve displays, lighting and access to garden he and sister Dorothy loved

A grant of almost £5m will be announced this week by the Heritage Lottery Fund to improve facilities at Dove Cottage, the home of the poet William Wordsworth and the place where he wrote his daffodils poem, in time for 2020, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth.

The cottage is still full of the poet’s possessions, and among the treasures of the museum are his sister Dorothy’s journals, including the entry for Thursday 15 April 1802, when they saw the flowers. She described:

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