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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
- 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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- 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
Background
A SENSE OF PLACE
What is meant by ‘Genius Loci’, ‘spirit of a place’? In classical Roman religion, a ‘genius loci’ was the protective spirit of a place. It was often depicted in religious iconography as a figure holding attributes such as a cornucopia, patera (libation bowl) or snake. Many Roman altars found throughout the Western Roman Empire were […]
WALKING, FREEDOM AND CREATIVITY
These are notes, very much work in progress, hopefully, you will find some interesting stuff in here… Walking is what makes us human Bipedalism is unique to man, it is a complex skill given to all through months of crawling and exploring. ‘It is, when you come to think of it, a remarkable achievement. On […]
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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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