Rydal, Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°25′59″N 2°58′59″W / 54.433°N 2.983°W
Rydal is a village in Cumbria, England. It is a small cluster of houses, church and hotel on the A591 road mid-way between Ambleside and Grasmere. It was part of Westmorland until the county of Cumbria was created in 1974.
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.[1]
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