Rydal
Rydal is a village in Cumbria, England. It is a small cluster of houses, church and hotel on the A591 road midway between Ambleside and Grasmere.
Historically part of Westmorland, Rydal is significant in the history of English Romantic literature. William Wordsworth lived at Rydal Mount from 1813 to 1850. Dr Thomas Arnold, notable headmaster of Rugby School, had a summer home at Fox How in nearby Under Loughrigg. Arnold's son, the poet Matthew Arnold, was a frequent visitor and a close friend of Wordsworth. At the northern end of Rydal Water is White Moss House, believed to be the only house owned by Wordsworth, which he bought for his son, Willie and which remained in the Wordsworth family until the 1930s.
Rydal is often a starting point for the Fairfield horseshoe, a hillwaking ridge hike.
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Rydal Guide (Rydal Village Society)
- "...THE hamlet of Rydal is a mixed community covering a wide spectrum of age groups and backgrounds, including employed, self employed and retired people.
There are no shops in the …
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Rydal with Loughrigg, 1848
- RYDAL, with Loughrigg, a township, in the parish of Grasmere, union and ward of Kendal, county of Westmorland, 1½ mile (N.W.) from Ambleside; containing 343 inhabitants. The township comprises 5,201 …
from http://www.rydal.org.uk/
Rydal Guide (Rydal Village Society)
- "...THE hamlet of Rydal is a mixed community covering a wide spectrum of age groups and backgrounds, including employed, self employed and retired people.
There are no shops in the …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
