Liz Earle Wellbeing

Poetry in motion

START & FINISH: Ambleside

DISTANCE: 33 miles/54km

TOTAL ASCENT: 890m

TERRAIN: Mostly lanes, a few sections of gravel track. Moderate.

For the steady stream of Romantic poets and their admirers who made the journey to Dove Cottage, the damp, cramped home where William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy spent eight years of ‘plain living, but high thinking’, the road from Ambleside was the finishing straight of a journey that might have taken several days or more. The likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and

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