 Welcome to our page of bed and breakfast in Cockermouth!
Lying just outside the boundary of the Lake District National
Park, Cockermouth is an attractive market town at the
junction of the two most important rivers in the area, the River
Cocker flowing out of the lakes Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater
and the River Derwent on its journey from lakes Derwent and Bassenthwaite
to the sea at Workington. Today's visitors are attracted by the
town's calm, its nearness to some of the more peaceful lakes
and mountains, and the fact that Dorothy and William Wordsworth
were born here. The large Georgian house in the Main Street where
they were born, is now in the care of the National Trust. Another
famous son of Cockermouth was Fletcher Christian, the man who
led the mutiny on 'The Bounty'. He was born about a mile from
the town at Eaglesfield in 1764, and attended the same school
as Wordsworth. John Dalton, born in 1766 also at Eaglesfield,
was one of the most brilliant scientists of his age, and was
the originator of the atomic theory. |
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