 Dove Cottage did not provide enough space for the Wordsworths' growing family and many visitors, and they left Dove Cottage for Allan Bank in Grasmere in May 1808.William had condemned this house as an eyesore when it was first built, and they moved on again in 1810 to the Old Rectory in the centre of Grasmere.Finally, in 1813, they moved to the much larger and better appointed Rydal Mount, a few miles to the south just outside Ambleside.