Dove Cottage was the home of William Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, the years of his supreme work as a poet. The cottage used to be an inn called the Dove and Olive and many of the building’s distinctive features date from this time; its white-washed walls, flagstone floors and dark, wood panelling. […]
Birdoswald
Birdoswald has the best preserved defences of any of the 16 major forts which supported Hadrian’s frontier system. Known to the Romans as ‘Banna’, from the early 3rd century its garrison was a thousand-strong infantry unit. Towards the western end of Hadrian’s Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia, today the site is occupied by […]