Rydal
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Rydal, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rydal Mount and Rydal Hall.
Rydal Mount
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Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal, near Ambleside in the English Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850, and his sister, the author, poet, and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, until her death in 1855.
Rydal Hall
Hotel
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Rydal Hall is a large detached house on the outskirts of the village of Rydal, Cumbria, in the English Lake District. It has an early nineteenth-century front facade, but includes some earlier fabric.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ambleside and Clappersgate.
Ambleside
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ambleside is a town in Cumbria. It is located at the head of Windermere, England’s largest lake, within the Lake District National Park.
Clappersgate
Hamlet
Photo: Anthony Parkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clappersgate is a village in the Westmorland and Furness Unitary Authority, in the county of Cumbria, England. Clappersgate is located on the B5286 road and on the River Brathay. Clappersgate is situated 1½ miles south of Rydal.
Brathay
Hamlet
Photo: Steph Aitchison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brathay is a hamlet in Skelwith parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of Lancashire, the hamlet lies close to Clappersgate on the south bank of the River Brathay, and is about 0.9 miles south west of Ambleside. Brathay is situated 2 miles south of Rydal.
Rydal
- Category: locality
- Location: Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.44722° or 54° 26′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.97971° or 2° 58′ 47″ westElevation
230 feet (70 metres)Open location code
9C6VC2WC+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 29540901OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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