
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: The Three Tuns. Reputedly built as the Dower House of the Bell Family, Lords of the Manor, this building became a leading coaching inn. William & Dorothy Wordsworth stayed here in 1802. Recorded plaque organisation: Thirsk Town Council.
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet, while his sister Dorothy was a writer and diarist; both are remembered for their contributions to literature and their reflections on nature and human emotion. They stayed at The Three Tuns in Thirsk in 1802, highlighting the historical significance of this coaching inn as a site that hosted notable literary figures.
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