40,000 visit Wordsworth & Waterloo in Grasmere

This year the UK remembered the Battle of Waterloo 200 years ago. Grasmere did it by creating an exhibition on Napoleon and his war through the eyes of the romantic poet William Wordsworth.

It's been incredibly popular. It closes its doors today (Sunday 1st November), having welcomed over 40,000 visitors.

The blood of battle is a long way from Worldworth's daffodils and Lakeland fells, and yet, many who fell as cannon fodder came from those hills. Wordsworth, War and Waterloo in Grasmere looks into this.

But now it's time to pack it away, and send it home. There's one last job, which staff are busy doing this weekend: making sure nothing's damaged.

As part of the exhibition, people have been imagining what it must have been like to have been at war and writing about their own experiences of going to different battlefields, in which those of WW1 feature heavily.

Others have written about the connection they feel to the Battle of Waterloo because there are now so streets named after this part of our history, like Wellington Road in Whitehaven or Waterloo Street.