Grasmere

Grasmere, a Westmorland village, 4 miles NW. of Ambleside. There are four hotels. Pop. 684. Its antique church is the church of the Excursion; and in the churchyard, washed by the Rothay, are the graves of Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge. 'Grasmere's peaceful lake,' with its 'one green island,' lies $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile to the south, between Loughrigg Fell (1101 feet) and Helm Crag (1299). Measuring $\backslash frac\{1\}\{4\}$ by $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile, it is 208 feet above sea-level, and 130 feet deep.