An app and a 19th-century advertising slogan will guide visitors to the places that inspired poet’s famous linesOn the old-fashioned hillside road linking Grasmere and Ambleside,above Windermere, stands a gate that “time out of intellect”, and as William Wordsworth put it,has been called the Wishing Gate.
This month, while cheering crowds below lined the route of the Tour of Britain cycle race, and there were few tourists who made the trip up to see this unimposing wooden gate.
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Source: theguardian.com