RESIDENTS of a North Yorkshire village are preparing ambitious plans to celebrate the 200th wedding anniversary of poet William Wordsworth at their parish church.
Wordsworth, who was living in the Lake District village of Grasmere, married Mary Hutchinson in her local church at Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough, on October 4, 1802.
Now Brompton Local History Society is to celebrate the day with a festival in the village and its church of All Saints.
Secretary Chris Evans said that they also planned to invite descendants of Wordsworth to take part and for the Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope to give an address on marriage.
Other ideas already on the drawing board include readings by poets connected to Wordsworth, an 8am procession to All Saints - the time he was married - followed by a short commemorative service and the ringing of the church's peal of bells.
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