What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: 2 Edgehill Road. From 1909 to 1915 home to writer Flora Thompson 1876-1947 Author of Lark Rise to Candleford. The nearby Winton Library fostered her writing career which began with award-winning essays written here in 1911 Recorded plaque organisation: Borough of Bournemouth.
Flora Thompson was an English author best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford," which vividly depicts rural life in Oxfordshire at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Places near here
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Winton Public LibraryListed building · 545 yd
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Fernheath ValleyNature reserve · 1.2 mi
Bournemouth Gardens: small waterfallWaterfall · 1.4 mi
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Wallisdown, boundary stoneMonument or public art · 1.6 mi
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King's Park, boundary stoneMonument or public art · 1.9 mi
Memorial to Flt. Lt. Jon EggingMemorial · 2.0 miOther information
Photo: Mike Searle on Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0