District Judge Paul Richardson, who also sentenced Stott to 120 hours of community service, said the landscape gardener had come close to going to prison.

BBC: Manchester

But it is the legacy of Wordsworth, who became a tourist attraction himself, as Romantic, ecologist, guidebook writer, landscape gardener (of particular appeal to Mr Thompson, a landscape architect) and arbiter of taste that continues to inspire and provoke controversy.

ECONOMIST: A green mythology