William Wordsworth, the great Lakeland poet would have known Stepping Stones by its former name of "Spring Cottage". In 1881 his youngest son-also called William bought the house for £1,600. He was rather wealthy thanks to his famous father bequeathing him his lucrative post of Stamp Distributor for Cumberland & Westmorland, receiving an income of more than £400 per annum.

Stepping Stones 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 favourite-Dora died in 1847 and is buried in the nearby church at Rydal.

Wordsworth wrote probably his most known poem in 1802 .......

".....A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze...."