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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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Cardiff: Roald Dahl
ROALD DAHL (1916-1990) In the nineteenth century, Cardiff was the world’s largest coal exporting port, and this created a diaspora around the docks of migrant communities from up to 45 nationalities that served the shipping business. These included Norwegian, Somali, Yemeni, Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Caribbean and Irish people, creating the unique multicultural character of the […]
Laugharne: Dylan Thomas
‘The funny thing is I find myself going back again and again’ KEY DATA Terrain: easy Starting point: Laugharne Castle car park, SA33 4SF Distance: 6.1 km (3.8 miles) Walking time: 1 hr 48 mins OS Map: 177. The map can be viewed online at https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/10038750/Laugharne-Dylan-Thomas Facilities: shops, pub, toilets DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953) We tend to […]
The Vale of Clwyd & Offa’s Dyke: Gerard Manley Hopkins
‘The true Arcadia of wild beauty’ ‘Always to me the Mother of Muses’ The inspiration for this walk…The selected poems of GM Hopkins More than any other poet perhaps Gerard Manley Hopkins seemed to us to be the perfect poet to study when you are first getting into poetry: there were so many terms he […]
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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
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