Last known Wordsworth descendant joins fight to stop Lake District pylons
by Nazia Parveen North of England correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#26Z0N)
National Grid has agreed to use underground cables within national park, but plans to put pylons 10 metres outside it
The last known descendant of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth is to join campaigners marching to "save the Lake District from pylons" on New Year's Day.
Ninety pylons the height of Nelson's column are planned across an estuary in the area of outstanding natural beauty where Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud.
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