Place Chilcompton
Coleridge's first Somerset poem was written as a result of his walking tour with Southey in August 1794. From Bristol Coleridge and...
Place Hazlitt's visit to Nether Stowey and Alfoxton
In May 1798, William Hazlitt walked from London to Coleridge's house in Nether Stowey, Somerset. Hazlitt and Coleridge immediately ste...
Place Wells Cathedral
In August 1894, George Gissing visited Somerset. In a letter to his brother Algernon, dated the 4th August, he writes of enjoying 'a...
Place The Saltway
In A Footpath-way in Gloucestershire, Gissing describes walking from Hailes (then little more than a church, a few cottages, a...
Place Dover's Hill
Dover's Hill is a natural amphitheatre which hosted the celebrated annual Cotswold Games established by Robert Dover, an attorney of...
Place Rose Cottage
After staying at Wickwar (1890) and Bredon’s Norton (1890), Algernon Gissing and his wife Catherine finally settled in Willersey in...