16-651: Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal , near Ambleside in the English Lake District . It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is currently operated as a writer's home museum . Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland in 1770, and knew the Lake District well from his childhood. He moved away to study at
32-406: A civil parish in 1894 and an urban district council was formed for the town at the same time. In 1905, the council merged with that of Windermere, and the two civil parishes merged on 1 April 1974 under the name of Windermere. The civil parish of Windermere is governed by a town council , Windermere and Bowness Town Council. Windermere railway station offers train and bus connections to
48-547: A bench with a small roof, but it provided shelter from the frequent rains and escape from the house. He frequently was visited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge who would walk down from his home in Keswick . Wordsworth died in 1850 and Mary in 1859. Rydal Mount was acquired in 1969 by Mary Henderson ( née Wordsworth), William's great great granddaughter. It remains in the ownership of the Wordsworth family, and has been opened to
64-426: Is said to have been built in 1415. A grammar school was founded in about 1600. A new building was opened in 1836, funded by local landowner John Bolton of Storrs Hall . The foundation stone was laid by William Wordsworth . During the 19th century, Bowness grew from a small fishing village to a town living almost entirely off tourism and holiday homes. It was the centre of the boat-building industry that provided
80-413: 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
96-743: The University of Cambridge in 1787, and then travelled in Britain and continental 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 which remained their home until their deaths. Both Grasmere and Windermere lakes can be seen from
112-423: The "Lakesider" (service 599), providing a scenic journey connecting Grasmere , Ambleside , Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere . The nearest railway station is Windermere ; both bus routes provide direct access to and from the station. [REDACTED] Media related to Rydal, Cumbria at Wikimedia Commons Bowness-on-Windermere Bowness-on-Windermere is a town and former civil parish , now in
128-468: The 2011 Census. 'Bowness' (originally 'Bulnes') means " 'the headland where the bull grazes', from OE 'bula', 'bull' and OE 'næss', 'headland', perhaps referring to the keeping of the parish bull." The 'on-Windermere' part was added later (found on the Ordnance Survey map of 1899). The town's ancient parish church of St Martin was built in 1483 but of an older foundation. The former rectory
144-563: The edge of town. The Windermere Ferry , a car carrying cable ferry , connects Bowness at Ferry Nab on the eastern side of the lake with Ferry House Far Sawrey on the western side of the lake, a trip of approximately 10 minutes. For those looking for a more leisurely way to travel, Windermere Lake Cruises operate regular lake cruises running from Bowness Bay to the north end of the lake at Ambleside and south end at Fell Foot. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Border . Television signals are received from
160-428: 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 grounds, tucked away from the main house, but overlooking both the grounds and the two nearby lakes, he built the "Writing Hut" where he spent most of his writing time. This hut consisted merely of
176-428: The local relay transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Cumbria on 104.2 FM, Heart North West on 102.3 FM, Smooth Lake District on 100.8 FM, and community on-line stations are Lake District Radio and Bay Trust Radio. The town's local newspapers are The Westmorland Gazette and North West Evening Mail . Readers of Arthur Ransome 's Swallows and Amazons series of books will recognise Bowness as
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#1732783292889192-542: 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 hillwalking ridge hike. Stagecoach Cumbria operates two key bus services. The primary service, numbered 555 , operates a route passing Keswick , Grasmere , Ambleside , Windermere , Kendal and Lancaster . Additionally, Stagecoach Cumbria offers an open-top service, known as
208-547: The parish of Windermere and Bowness , in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria , England. It lies next to Lake Windermere and the town of Windermere to the north east and within the Lake District National Park . The town was historically part of the county of Westmorland and it also forms an urban area with Windermere. The town had a population of 3,814 in
224-522: The public since 1970. Rydal Mount is a Grade I listed building . 54°26′55″N 2°58′57″W / 54.4487°N 2.9824°W / 54.4487; -2.9824 Rydal, Cumbria Rydal is a village in Cumbria , England. It is a small cluster of houses, a hotel, and St Mary's Church , on the A591 road midway between Ambleside and Grasmere . Historically part of Westmorland , Rydal
240-555: The sailing yachts, rowing boats and steam launches used on the lake. A large number of hotels and boarding houses gave employment to the permanent population of the town. Queen Adelaide visited Bowness in 1840, staying at the Royal Hotel. The arrival of the railway in 1847 in Windermere (the residents of Bowness had opposed a station in their own town) provided much of the momentum for the growth. Bowness-on-Windermere became
256-499: The surrounding areas, Manchester , Manchester Airport and the West Coast Main Line , and is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the lakefront. Both Stagecoach and the local council provide frequent connecting buses from Bowness Pier; Stagecoach's open-top double-decker buses travel through the centre of town and continue to Ambleside and Grasmere , while the council's wheelchair -accessible minibuses run around
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