Posts Tagged ‘Pont Pill’
encounters with literature 7-14
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coast near Fowey (image from Street View)
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map showing distance travelled … Daphne du Maurier’s house is near the yellow dot at about eight o’clock … Pont Pill is the stream at about one o’clock (map from Google Earth)
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On today’s virtual bike trip, I happened upon two locations famous for their literary connections. Near the end of my trip, I saw Readymoney (from the word for pebbly), the house Daphne du Maurier lived in during 1942. She lived here while writing her book Hungry Hill ( Doubleday-Doran, 1943) …
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Across the road is the beach at Readymoney Cove. I imagine Daphne du Maurier looking out on this view as she wrote or thought about her writing …
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Readymoney Cove in Fowey, across from du Maurier house (image from Street View)
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The house was originally the coach house for the mansion at Point Neptune …
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I also took a side road to Pont Pill. Pont Pill or Pont Creek is thought to have been the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows …
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Pont Creek beside a nicely landscaped house at Pont Pill (image from Street View)
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Best Views: Little Lantic Beach and the old water mill on Pont Pill …
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July 23, 2013 ‘Little Lantic Beach’ Jane Tims
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July 29, 2013 ‘old water mill at Pont Pill’ Jane Tims
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