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- 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
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- East Midlands
- East of England
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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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- Northern Ireland
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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
- London
- Background
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Grasmere & Rydal, Lake District: William Wordsworth
‘The loveliest spot that man have ever found’ KEY DATA Terrain: ups and downs, and uneven surfaces around the lake Starting point: Stock Lane car park, Grasmere (LA22 9SJ) Distance: 10.2 km (6.4 miles) Walking time: 3h 7 min OS Map: Outdoor Leisure Map 7. The route can be found online at https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/8851334/Grasmere Facilities: Grasmere […]
Kensington Gardens, London: Peter Pan Statue
‘Well, Peter Pan got out by the window, which had no bars. Standing on the ledge he could see trees far away, which were doubtless the Kensington Gardens, and the moment he saw them he entirely forgot that he was now a little boy in a nightgown, and away he flew, right over the houses […]
Rodmell, South Downs, East Sussex: Virginia Woolf
‘It will be our address for ever and ever’ ‘’Why not stay here forever and ever enjoying this immortal rhythm, in which both eye and soul are at rest?’ The inspiration for this walk…Orlando (1918) Sometimes a performance and a moment can transform your appreciation of a novel; and just such a thing happened to […]
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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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