Rydal Water in English Lake District
horizontal landscape photo of a bright autumn view of poet William Wordsworth s favourite lake Rydal Water from White Moss Common in the english Lake District in Cumbria England Great Britain UK Europe. Rydal Water is a small lake in the central region of the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. As it is less than a mile long, it is probably best described as a tarn. It is a quarter of a mile in width and 55 feet in depth. It is located near the hamlet of Rydal, between Grasmere and Ambleside in the Rothay Valley. Rydal was home to William Wordsworth for 37 years. Dove Cottage was one of his homes there. Rydal Mount was the other. Nab Cottage overlooks the lake and it was once home to Thomas de Quincey and Hartley Coleridge, the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Rydal Water is surrounded by numerous walks on the hills and fells, as well as a walk around the tarn itself, which takes in Dove Cottage, Rydal Mount and Rydal Cave. At the western end of the lake, steps lead to Wordsworth's Seat, which is considered to have been Wordsworth's favourite viewpoint in the Lake District. Rydal Mount is a house near Ambleside in the Lake District. It is best known as the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland in 1770, and knew the Lake District well from his childhood. He moved away to study at the University of Cambridge in 1787, and then travelled in Britain and Europe for 12 years. He spent over 8 years at Dove Cottage in nearby Grasmere from 1799 to 1808, but was forced to move to accommodate his growing family and many visitors. After a period in Allan Bank in Grasmere, the Wordsworths moved to Rydal Mount in 1813. Both Grasmere and Windermere lakes can be seen from the hillside grounds of Rydal Mount. William designed the layout of the gardens at Rydal, and he often said that those grounds were his office as opposed to the spacious office/writing room in his house. On the high side of the
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