Sunday 19 October 2014

Rydal Mount (near Ambleside)

 Looking down on the house from the car park

The front of the house where Wordsworth lived from 1813 to 1850 and where he died aged 80



Another view of the house from the gardens

Rydal water from the gardens

Rydal Water again

 The summer house



The summer house again

  Part of the gardens

 The house from the 9th  Century Norse Mound incorporated in the gardens



A portrait of William Wordsworth in the house

 The drawing room

 Looking out from the drawing room with lake Windermere just visible in the centre

Wordsworth's familiar poem.....

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