About Rydal Mount and Gardens

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.