Allan Bank, Grasmere Village

A distant view of Allan Bank, Grasmere in the Lake District, Cumbria:
Allan Bank was the home of William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy, wife Mary and their five children from 1808-1811. His good friend the poet Coleridge, also lived with them and Coleridge stayed on in Allan Bank after the Wordsworth family left. William hated the large house, describing it as a ‘temple of abomination’.