Cumbria Lake District : Rydal, Ambleside Cumbria
Rydal Holiday Lettings
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A warm welcome awaits you at the family run Stepping Stones Country House. (William Wordsworth sons Cottage)
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Idealy situated in the heart of the English Lake District just minutes from Ambleside yet in beautiful rural surroundings giving our guests a true 'getting away from it all' feeling. We have large landscaped gardens for all to enjoy and ample private parking, we are also totaly non-smoking.
At Stepping Stones we have four cottage style self catering holiday apartments, the Wordsworth, the Quillian, the Coleridge and the De-Quincey. Each has a double bedroom and sleeps 2 except the De-Quincey which has a double and twin room and sleeps 4. Bookings for one well behaved dog can be made by arrangement in Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Stepping Stones is an excellent base for those wishing to explore the Lake District by car on foot or by bike.
William Wordsworth, the great Poet would have known this house by its former name of "Spring Cottage". For in 1881 his youngest son-also named William purchased the house for the sum of £1600. He was fairly wealthy thanks to his famous father giving him in his will his lucrative post of Stamp Distributor for Cumberland & Westmorland, with an annual income of mare than £400. The house was to remain in the family until 1935, and there are still descendants today living in nearby Rydal Mount. Wordsworth married late, at 32,and had fathered his last child, William, when he was 40. Sadly only his two sons were to survive him. His favouite-Dora died in 1847 and is buried in the nearby church at Rydal. The photograph taken in 1886 no doubt shows William`s wife- Fanny crossing the stream over the stepping stones with her umbrella raised.
Low Season Price range £250 to £285
Peak Season Price range £285 to £430