White Moss House
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White Moss House is situated at the north end of Rydal Water
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William Wordsworth
bought White Moss House when he moved from Dove Cottage
in Grasmere
to Rydal Mount
.
Wordsworth rented all the houses that he lived in, and it was thought that he never owned a house, but Dove Cottage
archives and the deeds for White Moss House, show that he bought this building for his son, Willie to live in.
Dorothy Wordsworth
loved the White Moss area Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth and wrote about it extensively in her Grasmere Journals
The Wordsworth family expanded White Moss House from three miners cottages to a comfortable family home. The Wordsworth family lived there until the 1930s. It is now a guest house http://www.whitemoss.com.
Rydal Water
Rydal Water is a small lake in the central part of the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. It is located near the hamlet of Rydal, between Grasmere and Ambleside in the Rothay Valley....
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
bought White Moss House when he moved from Dove Cottage
Dove Cottage
Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking"...
in Grasmere
Grasmere
Grasmere is a village, and popular tourist destination, in the centre of the English Lake District. It takes its name from the adjacent lake, and is associated with the Lake Poets...
to Rydal Mount
Rydal Mount
Rydal Mount is a house near Ambleside in the Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850....
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Wordsworth rented all the houses that he lived in, and it was thought that he never owned a house, but Dove Cottage
Dove Cottage
Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking"...
archives and the deeds for White Moss House, show that he bought this building for his son, Willie to live in.
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives...
loved the White Moss area Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth and wrote about it extensively in her Grasmere Journals
The Wordsworth family expanded White Moss House from three miners cottages to a comfortable family home. The Wordsworth family lived there until the 1930s. It is now a guest house http://www.whitemoss.com.