Grasmere
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This article is about the village in the UK. For the neighborhood in Staten Island, New York, USA, see Grasmere, Staten Island. For the hamlet of Grasmere, British Columbia, Canada please see Grasmere, British Columbia.
Grasmere is a village in central Cumbria in the north of England, and is also the name of the adjacent lake.
Grasmere's position in the centre of the English Lake District has made it popular as a tourist destination.
The town is overlooked by the small rocky hill of Helm Crag, popularly known as 'The Lion and the Lamb' due to the shape of rock formations on its summit.
William Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage, in the hamlet of Town End, near Grasmere, from 1799 to 1808 [1].
Beside the church (where Wordsworth is buried) lies the only shop in the world selling Grasmere Gingerbread.
Grasmere has experienced population decline since the 1960s.
Although not in most peoples eyes an urban area the former civil parish was for a time governed by an urban district council before becoming part of the Lakes UDC in 1934. The village is now part of Lakes parish.