The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.

After the Cockermouth school, he was sent to a school in Penrith for the children of upper-class families and taught by Ann Birkett, a woman who insisted on instilling in her students traditions that included pursuing both scholarly and local activities, especially the festivals around Easter, May Day, and Shrove Tuesday.

Today it forms part of the Sea to Sea Cycle Route which crosses from Whitehaven or Workington on the west coast to Sunderland or Tynemouth on the east coast-for three miles between Keswick and Threlkeld it follows the Keswick Railway Footpath along the disused track and bridges of the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway as laid out by Bouch.

Another tributary is the River Cocker, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth, through which the Derwent flows after exiting Bassenthwaite Lake on its now westerly course.

It follows the A1 ( M ) south to Scotch Corner from where it continues west across the Pennines, past Brough, Appleby, Kirkby Thore, Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Keswick and Cockermouth, and on through the northern reaches of the Lake District, before arriving at the coastal town of Workington.

Historically a part of Cumberland, Cockermouth is situated outside the English Lake District on its northwest fringe.

In the days when opening hours of public houses were restricted, the fact that the pubs in Cockermouth could open all day on Market days made the town a popular destination for drinkers, especially on Bank Holiday Mondays.

The original Cockermouth & Workington Railway station was replaced on a new alignment when the Cockermouth railway station opened to passenger traffic on 2 January 1865.

A coach service runs daily from London Victoria, via Milton Keynes, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster and Kendal to Cockermouth, then on to Workington and Whitehaven ( approx 9 hrs ).

A second service runs from Birmingham Digbeth, via Wigan, Preston, Lancaster and Kendal to Cockermouth, then on to Workington and Whitehaven ( approx 6 hrs ).

The 1st Cockermouth Scout group meets on various days and incorporates all sections of the scouting movement.

Melville secured an opening for him from Viscount Lowther on a vacancy at Cockermouth in January 1807: Melville had suggested that Binning might come in for Haslemere on the same interest instead of Viscount Garlies, when the latter succeeded to the title in November 1806, but Binning had to wait for the next vacancy.

Cockermouth was only available to him for another year, so at the general election of 1807 he found another seat on Lord Clinton ’ s interest at Callington, through their mutual uncle Francis Drake.

The section running south towards Keswick was built on top of the former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway line.

Initially the unit underwent trials on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway in early 1957, but was subsequently also allocated to Lincoln and worked the same diagrams as the other 49.

As a moderate liberal he unsuccessfully contested Cockermouth in 1835, but was successful at the following election on 15 February 1836, and continued to represent the constituency till 1 July 1852.

The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway ( CK & PR ) was incorporated by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, for a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) West Coast Main Line at Penrith.

On 19 August 1875 a statue of Lord Mayo was unveiled in the town of Cockermouth in the centre of the main street.

John Hudson ( 1662 – November 26, 1719 ), English classical scholar, was born at Wythop, near Cockermouth in Cumberland.

Cockermouth School won the regional championship in the north of England for the kids lit quiz 2009 coming 1st with 92 points

The mountainous nature of the area, its high rainfall and the relative impermeability of the rock give rise to a high risk of storm flooding as demonstrated by the 2009 flooding of Cockermouth.

His opposition to the Reform Bill caused him to leave the Whigs and join the Tories, and he was elected, first for Cockermouth in 1831 and then in 1832 for Norwich, for which he sat until the dissolution of parliament in 1835.

Along with spending time reading in Cockermouth, Wordsworth would also stay at his mother's parents house in Penrith, Cumberland.

Although Hawkshead was Wordsworth's first serious experience with education, he had been taught to read by his mother and had attended a tiny school of low quality in Cockermouth.

John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.

Islands that are protected within the park include Keswick Island, St Bees Island, Cockermouth Island and Scawfell Island, which is the largest in the group.

The town was originally named Cockermouth in honor of Charles Wyndham, Baron Cockermouth and Earl of Egremont, who was Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1761 to 1763.

The Cockermouth River flows from west to east across the center of the town.

Hebron was formed in 1791 from a portion of the extinct township of Cockermouth and from a portion of what was then called West Plymouth.

The Cockermouth River, the primary feeder to the lake, enters the town from Groton to the west and passes the town center before entering the lake.

After leaving Cockermouth, the river flows by Papcastle where a Roman fort bears the name of the river.

Lying within the Borough of Allerdale, Workington is southwest of Carlisle, west of Cockermouth, and southwest of Maryport.

Workington is linked by the A596 road to Maryport, to Whitehaven via A595 road, by the A66 road to Cockermouth, and the M6 motorway to Penrith and County Durham.

Later, in 2005, the Jennings Brewery of Cockermouth was also purchased and in 2007 Hampshire based Ringwood Brewery, which was established in 1978, and brews Best Bitter, Fortyniner, and Old Thumper, was acquired.

The company now owns and operates five breweries: the Park Brewery in Wolverhampton brews Banks's, Hanson's and Mansfield beers ; the Marston's Brewery in Burton upon Trent brews Marston's and Bass ; the Jennings Brewery in Cockermouth ; the Wychwood Brewery in Witney ( which includes the Brakspear Brewhouse ); and the Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire.

It was not until 1319 that he once more was appointed sheriff, and at the same time made keeper of Carlisle and Cockermouth castles, and Warden of the West Marches.

All the rally cars are built, prepared and run for Ford by M-Sport, the motorsport team based in Cockermouth, Cumbria in Northern England.

These include: Earl of Kendal ( created 1443 ; extinct 1444 ), Viscount Rochester ( created 1611 ; extinct 1645 ), Viscount Beauchamp of Hache ( created 1536 ; forfeit 1552 ), Earl of Hertford ( created 1537 ; forfeit 1552 and created 1559 ; extinct 1750 ), Marquess of Hertford ( created 1640 ; extinct 1675 ), Baron Seymour of Trowbridge ( created 1641 ; extinct 1750 ), Baron Percy ( created 1722 ; separated 1750 ), Baron Cockermouth ( created 1749 ; separated 1750 ), Earl of Egremont ( created 1749 ; separated 1750 ), and Earl St. Maur ( created 1863 ; extinct 1885 ).

Most of what is now the A66 west of Penrith was originally A594 – only a small stub of this road remains, from Maryport to Cockermouth.

There is a short stretch of two lane dual carriageway alongside the northern part of Bassenthwaite Lake between Keswick and Cockermouth.

The reputation of the French army also suffered badly.

He suffered pain from the injury for the rest of his life and was badly scarred, styling his hair to disguise it as much as possible.

Díaz wrote that afterwards, Cortés suffered from insomnia due to guilt, and badly injured himself while wandering at night.

Castle Street was one of many streets that suffered badly ; rows of shops, including the Kardomah Café, were destroyed.

The English army suffered badly from disease, and Henry was not even present at the one notable victory, the Battle of the Spurs.

Plant suffered a broken ankle and Maureen was badly injured ; a blood transfusion saved her life.

However Masuria was still largely agrarian-oriented and suffered from the economic decline after World War I, additionally badly affected by the creation of the Polish Corridor, which raised freight costs to the traditional markets in Germany.

Wallace escaped, though his military reputation suffered badly.

Hebron, headed by its nazir Abd ar-Rahman Amr, declined to supply its quota of conscripts for the army and suffered badly from the Egyptian campaign to crush the uprising.

It suffered badly during the Second Punic War ( 218-201 BC ) when both Rome and Carthage fought to control it.

It suffered badly in both World Wars and recovered less quickly than did other parts of France.

The town and surrounding area suffered badly from floods in 1651, 1879, and 1907, though the construction of a levee helped to stave off the repeated floods from the Segura.

Southsea suffered badly from bombing in World War II.

Like most medieval buildings, the windows at Chartres suffered badly from the corrosive effects of atmospheric acids during the Industrial Revolution and subsequently.

The village suffered badly from the floods of 2007 and local residents were seen on the local BBC news network, Midlands Today.

The English army suffered badly during the retreat.

The metropolitan boroughs suffered very badly during World War II, during which considerable numbers of houses were destroyed or damaged beyond use due to heavy arial bombing.

Rural Platte County suffered badly from the Great Depression.

Doberan suffered badly in the Thirty Year's War.

He suffered badly from renal calculus, and increasing infirmities and sufferings afflicted him.

Civilians suffered as badly as or worse than soldiers, and the distinction between military combatants and non-combatant civilians was often overlooked or ignored.

In the autumn of 1922 he suffered badly from depression, had doubts about the sense of writing at all, and is said to have even made his first suicide attempt.

The Monarch suffered badly from the combined fires of Holsteen and Sjælland.

The vale suffered badly from the Harrying of the North when King William I devastated the northern counties of England to punish the population for their resistance to his conquest.

The Swedish army, which had suffered badly from different epidemic diseases during the winter, left its quarters in early June 1708 and marched towards Smolensk.