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The Wordsworth Family moved into Rydal Mount in 1813 and rented the house continually for 46 years until the death of Mary Wordsworth in 1859. Rydal Mount was the largest house the Wordsworths lived in and became a much-loved family home.
Rydal Mount dates from the 16th Century when the house was a small yeoman style cottage. This older part of the house became the Wordsworths Dining Room on the ground floor and Dorothy and Dora Wordsworth's bedrooms on the first floor.
The house has good entertaining space and the Wordsworths threw a great many parties in the Drawing Room . Both the Drawing Room and Library contain many original pieces of furniture, personal effects of the Wordsworths and portraits.
ratcho On the - 31-05-2011
The volunteers running the place were all lovely, but seemed a bit misguided. The things that are being passed off as original possessions of Wordsworth are all reproductions! Even the glasses are cheap 20th century. It's a bit much to pay to see genuine items and then get this. And as for the paintings - I don't think colour photocopies had been invented in the 1800s!
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