Walk Leader: Keith Scott
Total Distance: 9 miles
Total Ascent/Descent: 1000ft
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A scenic route around both Rydal Water and Grasmere involving a few gentle gradients. The route covers walking along public roads at times and some rough surfaces, but with very little mud hopefully!
We pass some interesting sites, including Dove Cottage, Wordsworth's home for some time, Rydal Mount, where he lived almost half his lifetime and St Oswalds Church, Grasmere where Wordsworth is buried.
Much of Lakeland has changed since Wordsworth's time to destroy the rural peace of this Lakeland valley, however this walk, at least in parts, helps to recapture the sense of that more tranquil past.
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