MAPE
Literary Britain
Where the words came from — Shakespeare's birthplace, the windswept parsonage of the Brontës, and the lakeside cottage where Wordsworth wrote.
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Some of the greatest stories in the English language were dreamed up in these houses and landscapes. This map is a pilgrimage to where literature was born: the timber house where Shakespeare was a boy, the bleak Yorkshire moors that haunt Wuthering Heights, the cottage gardens of Jane Austen and Beatrix Potter, and the rebuilt theatre where the Bard's plays still thunder. Bring a well-thumbed paperback.