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Cockermouth Castle - Photo:
Humphrey Bolton
CCL |
This characterful market town
in the north of Cumbria lies on the edge of the
Lake District National Park and is where the
rivers Cocker and Derwent meet. It was not only
the birthplace of Fletcher Christian, the leading
mutineer on the famous ‘Bounty’, but also William
Wordsworth. His boyhood house (Wordsworth House)
was almost demolished in the 1930s to make way for
a bus station. Instead it was handed to the
National Trust. It was owned by the poet’s father,
John, who lived there rent free, and his employer,
Sir James Lowther, of Lowther Castle. |
