William Wordsworth's descendant fights plan to 'fence in' part of the Lake District

Christopher Wordsworth, a decendant of William Wordsworth, is preventing plans to erect pylons alongside a three.5km stretch in Whicham Valley simply 10 metres from the Lake District

A £2.eight billion plan to 'fence in' the scenic Lake District with big electrical pylons is being fought - by the descendant of well-known poet William Wordsworth.

The Nationwide Grid desires to hyperlink the proposed new nuclear plant at Moorside close to Sellafield, Cumbria, to the UK energy community on the Heysham energy station in Morecambe.

After agreeing to not place 47-metre excessive pylons during the Lake District Nationwide Park, the utility big proposed a £460 million plan to run cable underground.

Nevertheless, that may nonetheless see pylons positioned alongside a three.5km stretch in Whicham Valley simply 10 metres from the Lake District Park's authorized boundary.

The road of pylons may even run proper throughout the highest of the Duddon Estuary interrupting beautiful views into and out of the excessive fells of the Lake District.

Now campaigners have been joined of their battle by William Wordsworth's great-great-great-great-grandson.

Christopher Wordsworth stated: 'William Wordsworth was enthralled by the distinctive great thing about the Duddon. It impressed his well-known sequence of sonnets.

'As a lot because the works of my ancestor are an vital a part of our literary heritage, his 'long-loved Duddon' is a crucial a part of our pure heritage.

'We owe it to his reminiscence to protect its magnificence for future generations to get pleasure from.'

Earlier this yr a storm of protest helped scrap the 'North West Coast Connections' mission scheme to slap 47-metre excessive pylons by the Lake District Nationwide Park.

Now lovers of the Lake District try to cease the utility big's back-up plan.

Panorama charity 'Pals of the Lake District' and marketing campaign group 'Energy With out Pylons' have teamed as much as battle the pylon plan.

The Nationwide Grid is seeking to hyperlink the proposed new nuclear plant at Moorside close to Sellafield, Cumbria, to the UK energy community on the Heysham energy station in Morecambe. However campaigners equivalent to Mr Wordsworth (pictured) say the pylons will destroy views

They need Nationwide Grid to undertake an alternate answer which might take away the necessity to take the facility cables up the valley and across the estuary.

Pals of the Lake District (FLD) are urging native folks to participate in a session which ends of the sixth of January

An FLD Spokesperson stated: 'For three.5km within the Whicham Valley, pylons might be inside simply tens of metres of the Nationwide Park boundary.

'The road of pylons may even run proper throughout the highest of the Duddon Estuary interrupting beautiful views into and out of the excessive fells of the Lake District, scarring a cherished panorama steeped in historical past.'

What Pylons would seem like on the sting of the Lake District. Campaigners stress the pylons would irreversibly scar the cherished nationwide park's iconic panorama, steeped in historical past

The road of pylons will run proper throughout the highest of the Duddon Estuary interrupting beautiful views into and out of the excessive fells of the Lake District. Photograph reveals shoreline of Wastwater within the Lake District

Maps displaying the place the Nationwide Grid plan to place underground cables and pylons can be found on their web site 

Campaigners stress this may irreversibly scar the cherished nationwide park's iconic panorama, steeped in historical past.

Dr Kate Willshaw, coverage officer at Pals of the Lake District, stated: 'We'd like as many individuals as doable to inform Nationwide Grid that placing pylons simply metres exterior of the Nationwide Park~s south-western boundary will trigger unacceptable harm.

'It'll destroy the particular qualities of the Nationwide Park and interrupting folks's enjoyment of our stunning panorama famend all through the world.'

Graham Barron, secretary of Energy With out Pylons, stated: 'Defending this vital space isn't just a neighborhood concern however a nationwide concern.

'Over 40 million folks go to Cumbria annually to get pleasure from these particular landscapes: they do not need them scarred by lumps of metallic and unpleasant overhead wires.

'There are possible alternate options to pylons which now we have campaigned for from the outset.

'If sufficient folks state their objections to large pylons in writing we imagine the wall of opposition will pressure Nationwide Grid to rethink.'

WHO WAS WILLIAM WORDSWORTH? 

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was one of the crucial influential of England's Romantic poets

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was one of the crucial influential of England's Romantic poets, alongside pal Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Born in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, his father was a lawyer however as a younger man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a theme mirrored in a lot of his poems.

In 1795, Wordsworth acquired a legacy from a detailed relative and he and his sister Dorothy went to dwell close to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was an admirer of Wordsworth's work.

They collaborated on 'Lyrical Ballads', printed in 1798. This assortment of poems, principally by Wordsworth however with Coleridge contributing 'The Rime of the Historic Mariner', is mostly taken to mark the start of the Romantic motion in English poetry.

In 1799, Wordsworth settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere within the Lake District the place his most well-known poem, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' was written in 1804.

In 1813, Wordsworth moved from Grasmere to close by Ambelside. He died in April 1850 and was buried in Grasmere churchyard.

 

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