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.  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- Mary crossing the stream over the stepping stones with her umbrella raised.