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- Inspiring Places: London, Bloomsbury – Books, Books, Books
- Brick Lane, East End, London: Monica Ali
- Inspiring Places: London, East End
- Gough Square, London: Dr Johnson’s House
- Highgate Cemetery – the creative choice for a burial
- Kensington Gardens, London: Peter Pan Statue
- Kilburn, London: Zadie Smith
- St Pancras Gardens, London: Thomas Hardy
- Southwark, London: Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Westminster Bridge and Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, London
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- Bath, Somerset: Jane Austen
- Bockhampton & The Frome Valley, Dorset: Thomas Hardy
- Boscastle, Cornwall: Thomas Hardy
- Inspiring Places: Bournemouth, Dorset
- Fowey, Cornwall: Daphne du Maurier
- Glastonbury, Somerset: Searching for King Arthur
- Greenway House, Dart Estuary, Devon: Agatha Christie
- Lyme Regis Cobb, Dorset: Jane Austen & John Fowles
- Quantocks, Somerset: The Birth of Romantic Poetry, Coleridge & Wordsworth
- River Dart, Devon, source to sea: Alice Oswald
- Slad, Gloucestershire: Laurie Lee
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire: are you a romantic or a rationalist?
- Tintagel Castle, Cornwall: Lord Tennnyson & The Arthurian legend
- Winchester, Hampshire: John Keats
- Zennor & St Ives, Cornwall: DH Lawrence & Virginia Woolf
- South East
- Ashdown Forest, East Sussex: AA Milne
- Broadstairs, Kent: Charles Dickens
- Canterbury, Kent: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chawton Cottage, Hampshire: Jane Austen
- Dover Beach, Kent: Matthew Arnold
- Inspiring Places: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Juniper Hill, North Oxfordshire: Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise to Candleford
- Rodmell, South Downs, East Sussex: Virginia Woolf
- West Midlands
- East Midlands
- East of England
- North West
- Coniston Water, Lake District: Arthur Ransome’s Swallows & Amazons
- Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, Lake District: Wordsworth’s Daffodils
- Grasmere & Rydal, Lake District: William Wordsworth
- Liverpool’s Hope St Quarter: focal point of the Mersey Beat and the Mersey Sound
- Near Sawrey, Lake District: Beatrix Potter
- North East
- Yorkshire
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Aberfeldy, Scotland : Robert Burns
- Cairngorms: Nan Shepherd
- Inspiring Places: Edinburgh
- Inspiring Places: Glasgow, Scotland; Glasgow’s modernist writers
- Isle of Jura, Argyll and Bute: George Orwell
- Melrose, Borders, Abbotsford House: Sir Walter Scott
- Sandaig, Glenelg, The Highlands; Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water
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- Home
- United Kingdom
- London
- Inspiring Places: London, Bloomsbury – Books, Books, Books
- Brick Lane, East End, London: Monica Ali
- Inspiring Places: London, East End
- Gough Square, London: Dr Johnson’s House
- Highgate Cemetery – the creative choice for a burial
- Kensington Gardens, London: Peter Pan Statue
- Kilburn, London: Zadie Smith
- St Pancras Gardens, London: Thomas Hardy
- Southwark, London: Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Westminster Bridge and Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, London
- South West
- Bath, Somerset: Jane Austen
- Bockhampton & The Frome Valley, Dorset: Thomas Hardy
- Boscastle, Cornwall: Thomas Hardy
- Inspiring Places: Bournemouth, Dorset
- Fowey, Cornwall: Daphne du Maurier
- Glastonbury, Somerset: Searching for King Arthur
- Greenway House, Dart Estuary, Devon: Agatha Christie
- Lyme Regis Cobb, Dorset: Jane Austen & John Fowles
- Quantocks, Somerset: The Birth of Romantic Poetry, Coleridge & Wordsworth
- River Dart, Devon, source to sea: Alice Oswald
- Slad, Gloucestershire: Laurie Lee
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire: are you a romantic or a rationalist?
- Tintagel Castle, Cornwall: Lord Tennnyson & The Arthurian legend
- Winchester, Hampshire: John Keats
- Zennor & St Ives, Cornwall: DH Lawrence & Virginia Woolf
- South East
- Ashdown Forest, East Sussex: AA Milne
- Broadstairs, Kent: Charles Dickens
- Canterbury, Kent: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chawton Cottage, Hampshire: Jane Austen
- Dover Beach, Kent: Matthew Arnold
- Inspiring Places: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Juniper Hill, North Oxfordshire: Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise to Candleford
- Rodmell, South Downs, East Sussex: Virginia Woolf
- West Midlands
- East Midlands
- East of England
- North West
- Coniston Water, Lake District: Arthur Ransome’s Swallows & Amazons
- Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, Lake District: Wordsworth’s Daffodils
- Grasmere & Rydal, Lake District: William Wordsworth
- Liverpool’s Hope St Quarter: focal point of the Mersey Beat and the Mersey Sound
- Near Sawrey, Lake District: Beatrix Potter
- North East
- Yorkshire
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Aberfeldy, Scotland : Robert Burns
- Cairngorms: Nan Shepherd
- Inspiring Places: Edinburgh
- Inspiring Places: Glasgow, Scotland; Glasgow’s modernist writers
- Isle of Jura, Argyll and Bute: George Orwell
- Melrose, Borders, Abbotsford House: Sir Walter Scott
- Sandaig, Glenelg, The Highlands; Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water
- London
- Background
- Contact
East Midlands
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire: Lord Byron
‘…It lies perhaps a little low, Because the monks preferred a hill behind To shelter their devotion from the wind.’ LORD BYRON (1788-1824) Lord Byron was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, embodying a lifestyle of brilliance and lasciviousness. The phrase ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’ was coined for him, and […]
Eastwood, Nottinghamshire: DH Lawrence
‘The Country of My Heart’ The book that inspired this walk…Sons & Lovers (1913) My English teacher told me that no-one remained a DH Lawrence fan beyond their twenties and, although in a sense he was right, he was somewhat dismissing our adulation of him in our late teens. And it really never was all […]
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- Home
- United Kingdom
- London
- Inspiring Places: London, Bloomsbury – Books, Books, Books
- Brick Lane, East End, London: Monica Ali
- Inspiring Places: London, East End
- Gough Square, London: Dr Johnson’s House
- Highgate Cemetery – the creative choice for a burial
- Kensington Gardens, London: Peter Pan Statue
- Kilburn, London: Zadie Smith
- St Pancras Gardens, London: Thomas Hardy
- Southwark, London: Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Westminster Bridge and Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, London
- South West
- Bath, Somerset: Jane Austen
- Bockhampton & The Frome Valley, Dorset: Thomas Hardy
- Boscastle, Cornwall: Thomas Hardy
- Inspiring Places: Bournemouth, Dorset
- Fowey, Cornwall: Daphne du Maurier
- Glastonbury, Somerset: Searching for King Arthur
- Greenway House, Dart Estuary, Devon: Agatha Christie
- Lyme Regis Cobb, Dorset: Jane Austen & John Fowles
- Quantocks, Somerset: The Birth of Romantic Poetry, Coleridge & Wordsworth
- River Dart, Devon, source to sea: Alice Oswald
- Slad, Gloucestershire: Laurie Lee
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire: are you a romantic or a rationalist?
- Tintagel Castle, Cornwall: Lord Tennnyson & The Arthurian legend
- Winchester, Hampshire: John Keats
- Zennor & St Ives, Cornwall: DH Lawrence & Virginia Woolf
- South East
- Ashdown Forest, East Sussex: AA Milne
- Broadstairs, Kent: Charles Dickens
- Canterbury, Kent: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chawton Cottage, Hampshire: Jane Austen
- Dover Beach, Kent: Matthew Arnold
- Inspiring Places: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Juniper Hill, North Oxfordshire: Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise to Candleford
- Rodmell, South Downs, East Sussex: Virginia Woolf
- West Midlands
- East Midlands
- East of England
- North West
- Coniston Water, Lake District: Arthur Ransome’s Swallows & Amazons
- Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, Lake District: Wordsworth’s Daffodils
- Grasmere & Rydal, Lake District: William Wordsworth
- Liverpool’s Hope St Quarter: focal point of the Mersey Beat and the Mersey Sound
- Near Sawrey, Lake District: Beatrix Potter
- North East
- Yorkshire
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Aberfeldy, Scotland : Robert Burns
- Cairngorms: Nan Shepherd
- Inspiring Places: Edinburgh
- Inspiring Places: Glasgow, Scotland; Glasgow’s modernist writers
- Isle of Jura, Argyll and Bute: George Orwell
- Melrose, Borders, Abbotsford House: Sir Walter Scott
- Sandaig, Glenelg, The Highlands; Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water
- London
- Background
- Contact
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