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< Back to our Holiday ideas page  Literary Landmarks
A surprising number of our buildings have links to literature through authors, poets or their works. Here are just a selection.
Auchinleck House
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Beckford's Tower
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Calverley Old Hall
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Clavell Tower
Also, the inspiration for P. D. James's novel The Black Tower. Click here to check availability and book.
Cloth Fair
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Coombe
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Dolbelydr
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The Egyptian House
Egyptian House is made up of three apartments, all available to rent for short breaks.
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Frenchman's Creek
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Gothic Temple
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The Hill House
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Howthwaite
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Laughton Place
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Luttrell's Tower
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Lynch Lodge
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Martello Tower
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Wolveton Gatehouse
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Woodsford Castle
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Lundy
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Italy - Casa Guidi
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Italy - Piazza di Spagna
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Italy - Sant' Antonio
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The prolific author Samuel Johnson was great friends with James Boswell (his own famous biographer), and he stayed there at the family seat while they toured the Hebrides.
Enormously wealthy and eccentric recluse William Beckford wrote the Gothic novel Vathek. He went on to build Beckford's Tower on a hill up above Bath.
One of the previous owners of Calverley Old Hall inspired The Yorkshire Tragedy, a play once attributed to Shakespeare.
Featured as the frontispiece to Thomas Hardy's Wessex Poems and where he took his first love, Eliza Nicholl.
No. 43 Cloth Fair was once the home to former Poet Laureate John Betjeman. He was also fond of the works of M. R. James whose A Warning to the Curious featured our very own Martello Tower.
The village of Coombe was the home of Charles Kingsley's heroine of Westward Ho!, Rose Salterne. For younger Landmarkers, Ruth Brown wrote a children's book "Our Puppy's Holiday" set in Coombe with some wonderful illustrations.
Henry Salesbury wrote the Grammatica Britannia when he lived here, the first book on Welsh Grammar. Its importance has meant it is widely regarded as the home of the modern Welsh language.
Featured in one of W. J. Burley's Wycliffe detective novels, Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death.
Daphne du Maurier spent her wedding night on a boat in the creek and went on to write the novel of the same name. The Landmark was home to the less well known C. C. Vyvyan, a gardening and local history writer.
T. H. White, author of The Once and Future King was a schoolmaster at Stowe for four years. His works influenced J. K. Rowling's characters in the Harry Potter series.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned to build Hill House for Walter Blackie of the Blackie and Son publishing house. Blackie and Sons republished such classics as Kidnapped, Wuthering Heights and Westward Ho! amongst many others.
Set on the hillside above Wordsworth's Dove Cottage, Howthwaite has a view across the valley much beloved and featured within his poetry.
Virginia Woolf onced considered buying Laughton Place but lived instead for many years at Monk's House in nearby Rodmell, where she is now buried.
Neville Shute's novel Requiem for a Wren is set at Lepe, not far from Luttrell's Tower, and some of the story takes place on the beach below it.
The Lodge once served the entrance to a much larger house owned by a favourite cousin of John Dryden. Dryden became one of the most influencial poets, with Auden, Pope, Byron and Scott counted among his admirers.
M. R. James's A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories was the final collection of his short stories. One of the stories mentions our very own Martello Tower. An important scene in Pat Barker's first book of the Regeneration trilogy was also set at the tower.
It is believed that Thomas Hardy was once invited to tea at Wolveton House in 1900, and afterwards based one of his stories on Penelope Trenchard, the second wife of a 19th-century owner.
One of the pre-Landmark restorations was carried out by the builder father of Thomas Hardy around 1850. The Castle sits within a landscape that Hardy knew and loved, and in which his characters are easy to visualise.
The poets Elizabeth and Robert Browning spent many happy and productive years at Casa Guidi, their Florentine home.
We let the apartment above that in which Keats died in 1821. Overlooking the Spanish Steps, the view from the windows remains almost unchanged from the days of the Grand Tour.
Parts of Sant' Antonio date back to around 60 BC and are believed to have formed part of a Roman villa belonging to the great poet Horace.
