About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Abbotsford House, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Red House Museum, Newstead Abbey, Jamaica Inn, Ellisland Farm, Dumfries, Bronte Parsonage Museum, 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, Shakespeare's Globe, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Shakespeare's Birthplace, Dove Cottage, Keats House, Erasmus Darwin House, Charleston Farmhouse, Seven Stories, Bateman's, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Monk's House, Charles Dickens Museum, Carlyle's House, Clouds Hill, Hill Top, Cumbria, Dylan Thomas Centre, Chawton House, Greenway Estate, Coleridge Cottage, John Bunyan Museum, Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Durban House Heritage Centre, Shaw's Corner, Rydal Mount, Burns Cottage, Milton's Cottage, The Manor, Roald Dahl Children's Gallery, D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum, Bede's World, Nash's House, Jane Austen's House Museum, Prince Henry's Room, Lamb House, Wordsworth House, Dylan Thomas Boathouse, Dr. Johnson's House, Max Gate, Jane Austen Centre, Ruskin Library, Thomas Hardy's Cottage, D.H. Lawrence Heritage. Excerpt: The Jamaica Inn, originally a public house and now an inn, is a Grade II listed building in the civil parish of Altarnun, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Located near the middle of Bodmin Moor near the hamlet of Bolventor, it was built as a coaching house in 1750 as a staging post for changing horses during stagecoach runs over the moor. It is accessible in present-day by the A30. The hill named Tuber or Two Barrows, 1,122 feet (342 m), is close-by. The inn is famous for being the base of smugglers in the past and has gained national renown for allegedly being one of the most haunted places in Great Britain. It is also known as the setting for Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name, published in 1936. The young author at the time was inspired to write her novel when, having gone horse riding on the moors, she became lost in thick f...
