Ted Hughes At Court Green
Hughes wrote Crow and most of his later work at the house. He wrote standing at a lectern. Hughes died in 1998, and his friend Seamus Heaney read at the funeral service at the church across the lawn.
Coordinates: 50°48′00″N 3°53′42″W / 50.8001°N 3.8951°W / 50.8001; -3.8951
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