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Rydal, Cumbria

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OS grid reference
  
NY362046

Country
  
England

Post town
  
AMBLESIDE

Shire county
  
Cumbria

District
  
South Lakeland

Civil parish
  
Lakes, Cumbria

Region
  
North West

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
LA22

Local time
  
Saturday 1:18 PM

Dialling code
  
015394

UK parliament constituency
  
Westmorland and Lonsdale

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Weather
  
16°C, Wind NW at 10 km/h, 32% Humidity

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.

Map of Rydal, Ambleside, UK

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.

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Rydal, Cumbria Wikipedia