Rydal Mount
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Rydal Mount was William Wordsworth's home from 1813 to 1850. This came after his shorter but prolific period in Grasmere. Rydal Mount is near Ambleside in the Lake District, and both Grasmere and Windermere lakes can be seen from the hillside grounds of Rydal Mount. He architected the lay out of the gardens there, and he often said that those grounds were his office as opposed to the spacious office/writing room in his house. On the high side of the grounds, tucked away from the main house, but overlooking both the grounds and the two nearby lakes, he built the "Writing Hut" where he spent most of his writing time. This hut consisted merely of a bench with a small roof, but it provided shelter from the frequent rains and escape from the house. He lived the rest of his life there until his death at the age of 70, and he frequently was visited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge who would walk down from his home in Keswick.