Wordsworth in Leicestershire

Between 1806 and 1807, William Wordsworth lived and worked in Coleorton near Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. Today Coleorton is an unremarkable village in the midst of an ex-coal mining area. A couple of centuries earlier, however, Coleorton was a major destination for 19th-century artists and writers such as Byron, Coleridge, Southey, Sir Walter Scott, John Constable, Mrs Siddons and William Wordsworth. Sir George Beaumont of Coleorton Hall was a skilled amateur painter and art enthusiast, w