Place A marriage of pantisocrats
Both Southey and Coleridge were married in St Mary Redcliffe. Coleridge to Sarah Fricker on the 4th October 1795, and Southey to Edith...
Place The Guildhall
On the 17th November, 1795 was a meeting intended to congratulate the king (George III) on his recent evasion from attack. After the...
Place A revolutionary at Nether Stowey
Coleridge and Thelwall had corresponded since April 1796, and in July 1797 Thelwall's walking tour through the west country of England...
Place Brockley Combe
During the spring and summer of 1795, Coleridge made several excursions to Somersetshire. The poem ‘Brockley Coomb’, in Effusions...
Place Coleridge's lodging
Coleridge lodged here when lecturing at the Assembly Coffee house in Prince Street. A contemporaneous pamphlet advertises how Coleridge...
Place Joseph Cottle's bookshop
Born in Bristol and educated in Hanham, Joseph Cottle established himself as a bookseller, printer and publisher in the heart of the...
Place Poole House
Poole House is thought to have been built in the late 17th century although some parts are belived to be even older. Thomas Poole lived...
Place John Pinney's house
John Pinney, merchant venturer, built this house on returning from the West Indies. He made a fortune on plantations and continued to...
Place Coleridge's house, Kingsdown
In spring 1796, on Southey recommendation to 'come and live up on the hill', with him, Coleridge moved to Kingsdown to nurse an ailing...