Address: A591 Rydal Church | near Rydal Mount, Rydal, Ambleside LA22 9LX, England
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Dora's Field Videos
Lake District Walks - Rydal in Spring
A Lake District walk around Rydal Water in late May, featuring fine views of Rydal Water, and visiting Rydal Caves, Dora's Field and passing by Rydal Church and Rydal Mount, before returning via the Coffin Route from Rydal to White Moss Common.
Wordsworth Poetry Walk
This is Professor Simon Bainbridge from Lancaster University on one of his Wordsworth poetry walks from Grasmere - via Dove Cottage where Wordsworth lived, along the Coffin Trail to Rdyal Mount where the poet lived in later life, past Dora's field and Rydal church to Rydal water and the bluebells on Loughrigg. Then back through the woods to Grasmere. It was a beautifully sunny day.
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Illustrated with pictures of daffodils at Glencoyne Bay - Ullswater, and Dora's Field, Rydal - Cumbria. See also
Dorothy Wordsworth's Rydal Journals
Dorothy Wordsworth is best known for the journal that she wrote in Grasmere, but many are unaware of the details of her life beyond it: her life as a remarkable walker, her struggles with chronic illness, her commitment to her family and friends, and her devotion to her brother William.
Two women take us into Dorothy’s world for a spring afternoon. Walking in Dorothy’s footsteps around Grasmere with Senior Hospice Nurse Lilian Simmonds, we experienced the routes that brought Dorothy so much joy, strength and inspiration.
Following the walk, Kathleen Winter (novelist and short-story writer) talks about her journey in transcribing Dorothy’s 1834 journal in the Jerwood Centre reading room. Dorothy’s unpublished late journal covers 10 years of her life at Rydal Mount, during which time she struggled with ill-health, often unable to leave her bed. Nevertheless, her journal gives a fascinating insight into the later life of the Wordsworth family, as well as her own inner strength.
Leighton Park School Mock Election - UKLP Acceptance Speech
Coinciding with the General Election, Leighton Park School hosted it's own mock election for students and staff. With a choice between the right-leaning ‘United Kingdom Liberation Party’, the leftist ‘Leightonian People’s Party’ and centralist party the ‘Leightonian Social Democrats’. Each party designed to give students a better understanding of political parties, policies and propaganda.
On Friday 8th May, after taking part in a digital ballot the previous day, students and staff elected UKLP with a majority of 58.1%.
In his rousing acceptance speech, UKLP party leader, Jack Collins (Upper Sixth) outlined his vision for Britian and for Leighton Park School.