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
Westmorland (, formerly also spelt ''Westmoreland'';R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British IslesVision of Britain/ref> is a historic county in North West England spanning the southern Lake District and the northern Dales. It had an ...
, Rydal is significant in the history of
English Romantic literature
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
.
William Wordsworth lived at
Rydal Mount from 1813 to 1850. Dr
Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were wide ...
, 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
White Moss House is situated at the north end of Rydal Water in the English Lake District.
William Wordsworth bought White Moss House when he moved from Dove Cottage in Grasmere (village), Grasmere to Rydal Mount.
Wordsworth rented all the hou ...
, 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.
White Moss House
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Rydal is often a starting point for the Fairfield horseshoe, a hillwalking ridge hike.
See also
* Rydal Mount
* Rydal Water
*Rydal Hall Rydal may refer to:
Places
;Europe
* Rydal, Cumbria, a hamlet in the Lake District of England
** Rydal Mount, William Wordsworth's house in the Lake District
** Rydal Water, the lake upon which it is situated
* Rydal Penrhos, a private school in N ...
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Rydal and Loughrigg
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
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Villages in Cumbria
South Lakeland District