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Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Cockermouth, Cumbria*

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity
  • kieran toddy todhunter of cockinmouth
  • Wordsworth (!!!!). And wasn't Jason Orange rumoured to have been seen in Walter Wilson's about 10 years ago...he was supposedly in the area visiting the house he was meant to be buying on Dale View!
  • yeah yeah wordsworth - the house is a lot better now to visit
  • your havin a laugh
  • william wordsworth
  • William's Childhood Home - from June 22nd 2004 you will be able to meet some of the Wordsworth Household, enjoy the sights and sounds of a working 18th Century kitchen, explore the newly restored garden where Dorothy and William Wordsworth used to play and hear about the gossip and goings-on of this Cumbrian market town in the 1770's. Wordsworth House will be open daily except Sunday from 11 4.30 pm.
  • William wordsworth the poet you can go to his old house but its rather boring.
  • Malcolm wilson, ex-british rally champion who also has his M-sport workshops up the road
  • I am a famous resident except i live in Wigton smellytown!
  • Fletcher Christian.
  • william wordsworth - hence wordsworth house, where he was born. fletcher christian - hence the fletcher christian tavern..
  • William Wordsworth (poet) Fletcher Christian (Bounty Mutineer) And, I guess Lord Bragg is from somewhere nearby. Can I count him as well?

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Last updated: 2012-02-06

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