Ferries (still known as "steamers", although now diesel powered) run to Bowness-on-Windermere and Lakeside offering fine views of the lake and surrounding mountains. William Wordsworth worked in Ambleside, as Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland, from 1813, while living at Rydal Mount in the nearby village of Rydal.[6] This government position induced Shelley to write a sonnet of mild reprimand, To Wordsworth, but it gave Wordsworth the financial security to pursue his poetry[citation needed]. In 1842, he became the Poet Laureate and resigned his office as Stamp Distributor.. 82060602
2019 RBC Solutions | Toronto, Canada | photographed: 1982 June
