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- 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
- London
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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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Quantocks, Somerset: The Birth of Romantic Poetry, Coleridge & Wordsworth
‘Upon smooth Quantock’s airy ridge we roved, unchecked, or loitered ’mid her sylvan combes’ (Wordsworth) ‘Now, my friends emerge Beneath the wide wide Heaven—and view again The many-steepled tract magnificent Of hilly fields and meadows, and the sea’ (Coleridge) The inspiration for this walk…The Lyrical Ballads (1798) When I first started to study English Literature […]
Fowey, Cornwall: Daphne du Maurier
‘I think Fowey means more to me than anything now. The river, the harbour, the sea. It’s much more than love for a person.’ ‘All I want to be is at Fowey. Nothing and no one else. This now is my life.’ The inspiration for this walk…Rebecca I must admit it was the 1940 Hitchcock […]
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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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