"Who had a Greek phrase which could translate as: ""Why worry"" carved into the pediment of his cottage at Cloudshill, Dorset?"
"Clouds Hill Clouds Hill is an isolated cottage near Wareham in the county of Dorset in South West England. It is the former home of T. E. Lawrence (""Lawrence of Arabia"") and is now run as a writer's home museum by the National Trust. The site is in the parish of Turners Puddle in Purbeck District. The small building has colourwashed brick walls and a tiled roof. It was probably built as forester's cottage in the early 19th century. The lintel over the door now bears a Greek inscription ""οὐ φροντὶς"" (""Why Worry""). It is now a Grade II* listed"
"Coleshill House, Berkshire (c.1658–62; dem. 1952), the home of his cousin, Sir George Pratt. The house has been attributed to Inigo Jones, but although Jones is now primarily credited with the design, the execution was Pratt's.[4] The house is an example of the double-pile house, which was popular in seventeenth century England, and commended by Pratt since ‘it seems of all others to be the most useful … for that we have there much room in a little compass … and there may be a great spare of walling’ (Gunther, 24). Although a less effective example of the planning and"
"which was housed in the Temple of Death in the country garden of Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens. The garden was at Denbies, near Dorking. The monument represented an angel blowing the last trump causing a stone pyramid to crumble to pieces and the corpse within it to throw aside the grave clothes and prepare to arise ‘with a mixture of joy and astonishment’. The epitaph was written by Mr. Robson, tutor to Petre’s children: ""To the Memory ofmy great and much honoured FRIENDROBERT, Lord PETREOb. 2 Jul. 1742. Aet suae 29.This stone, ennobled by a PETRE’s name"
"Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence's biographer, tuum's occupants included George Bernard Shaw, E. M. Forster and Robert Graves"" Clouds Hill Clouds Hill is an isolated cottage near Wareham in the county of Dorset in South West England. It is the former home of T. E. Lawrence (""Lawrence of Arabia"") and is now run as a writer's home museum by the National Trust. The site is in the parish of Turners Puddle in Purbeck District. The small building has colourwashed brick walls and a tiled roof. It was probably built as forester's cottage in the early 19th century. The lintel over the door"
"and art historian who helped design the Highgrove gardens Sir Roy Strong, and Léon Krier, who created Poundbury, a village built to Charles's architectural principals in Dorset. Busts of the former owner of Highgrove, Maurice Macmillan (sculpted by Angela Conner), the explorer and confidant of Charles, Sir Laurens van der Post (sculptured by Frances Baruch), and pilot and psychiatrist Alan McGlashan are situated in Highgrove's Cottage Garden, in recesses in a yew hedge. A path of stone cobbles leaves the Cottage Garden, before surrounding a stone obelisk inscribed with 'York, Weymouth and Bath', given to Charles for his 60th birthday"
"to get closer to her bones. Dorset is famed in English literature for being the native county of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset, which he renamed ""South Wessex"". The National Trust owns Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woodland east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his former house in Dorchester, Dorset. Several other writers have been influenced by the Dorset landscape, including P. D. James whose novel ""The Black Tower"" was inspired by Clavell Tower in Kimmeridge; and Enid Blyton who spent many holidays"
"Church Cottage, Tutshill Church Cottage in the village of Tutshill, Gloucestershire, England, is a Grade II listed building, thought to have been designed by the architect Henry Woodyer. It was the childhood home, between the ages of 9 and 18, of Joanne Rowling, author (as J. K. Rowling) of the ""Harry Potter"" series of fantasy books. The building was constructed in about 1852 in the Victorian Gothic style, and was originally used as a schoolhouse and then a rectory. Henry Woodyer designed the adjoining St. Luke's Church, and English Heritage regard him as ""possibly"" the designer of the cottage as"
"also contains three religious alliterative poems, ""Cleanness"", ""Patience"" and ""Pearl"", which are attributed to the same unknown author. Although the identity of the author is still disputed, J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon writing in 1925 concluded that ""his home was in the West Midlands of England; so much his language shows, and his metre, and his scenery."" The first documented instance of Potteries dialect is by the prominent Staffordshire lawyer John Ward (1781–1870) and local historian Simeon Shaw in their book ""The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent"" published in 1843, in which Ward recorded phonetically a conversation which he"
"property in Ayrshire of the noble family who take their title from it. According to tradition, it was built by a hero named Donald Din, or Din Donald, and constructed entirely of stone, without the use of wood, a supposition countenanced by the appearance of the building, which consists of three distinct stories, arched over with strong stonework, the roof of one forming the floor of another. Donald, the builder, was originally a poor man, but had the faculty of dreaming lucking dreams. Upon one occasion he dreamed, thrice in one night, that if he were to go to London"
"to Annie Porter (1835–1897) who died a few months after he did. James Carswell James Carswell (1830–1897) was a Scottish railway engineer largely remembered for his design of glazed roof on Queen Street Station, Glasgow and the huge approaches to the Forth Rail Bridge. He was born in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire in 1830 the son of Anne and Thomas P. Carswell. His father was an iron-founder and merchant and it is likely that he was initially apprenticed as an iron-founder. His depth and understanding of iron construction shows both a practical knowledge and a strong design understanding. In 1851 he moved"
"of the Jurassic Coast"" creates a myth of how Durdle Door came to be, as an 'undiscovered' dinosaur called ""Durdle Doorus"" is magically transformed into rock. Dorset-born Arthur Moule, a friend of Thomas Hardy and missionary to China, wrote these lines about Durdle Door for his 1879 book of poetry ""Songs of heaven and home, written in a foreign land"": Durdle Door Durdle Door (sometimes written Durdle Dor) is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. It is privately owned by the Welds, a family who owns in Dorset in the name of the"
"Manor of Copleston The Manor of Copleston was a manor in Mid Devon, England, centred on the village of Copplestone. The Copleston Cross or Stone gave its name to the historic estate or manor of Copleston (modern: Coplestone) which was the earliest known home of the prominent historic ""Copleston"" family, one of the most ancient in Devon according to ""that old saw often used among us in discourse"", the traditional rhyme related by John Prince (d.1723): """"Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone"", The Cruwys family in 2014 still resides in its ancient manor house at Cruwys Morchard where, despite the traditional rhyme,"
"is recorded in Old English (in the dative case) as ""Soppanbyrig"" = ""Soppa's fort"". ""Chipping"" (from Old English ""cēping"") means that a market was held there. Edward Jenner, in the 18th century, started his medical training in Sodbury, observing people catching cowpox and then ""not"" catching smallpox. RC ""Jack"" Russell: former England cricket wicket keeper and artist owns an art gallery in the town. Sir James Dyson, inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, lives at Dodington Park just outside Chipping Sodbury. J.K. Rowling, author of the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series, was born in 1965 at the Chipping Sodbury"
"Durdle Door Durdle Door (sometimes written Durdle Dor) is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. It is privately owned by the Welds, a family who owns in Dorset in the name of the Lulworth Estate. It is open to the public. The name Durdle is derived from the Old English word ‘thirl' meaning bore or drill. The form of the coastline around Durdle Door is controlled by its geology—both by the contrasting hardnesses of the rocks, and by the local patterns of faults and folds. The arch has formed on a concordant coastline"
"attached adventures which had been handed down from Roman and Greek mythology. He lived in the north of Britain, was associated with a monastery, and started the first rendition of the Tristan story on its travels to wherever it has been found."" Possible evidence for his roots in South West England is the 6th-century inscribed granite pillar known as ""The Tristan Stone"", or ""The Longstone"" (, meaning ""long stone""), set beside the road leading to Fowey in Cornwall. It measures some 2.7 m (7 feet) in height and has been set in a modern concrete base. Until the 1980s it"
"James Carswell James Carswell (1830–1897) was a Scottish railway engineer largely remembered for his design of glazed roof on Queen Street Station, Glasgow and the huge approaches to the Forth Rail Bridge. He was born in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire in 1830 the son of Anne and Thomas P. Carswell. His father was an iron-founder and merchant and it is likely that he was initially apprenticed as an iron-founder. His depth and understanding of iron construction shows both a practical knowledge and a strong design understanding. In 1851 he moved with his family to 106 South Portland Street in the Gorbals in"
"accessible to the city—a streetcar suburb. The mother and grandparents of John F. Kennedy lived in the Ashmont Hill neighborhood while John F. ""Honey Fitz"" Fitzgerald was mayor of Boston. The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called ""The Dorchester Giant"" in 1830, and referred to the special kind of stone, ""Roxbury puddingstone"", also quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, most notably the Central Congregational Church (later called the Church of the Covenant) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. In 1845, the Old Colony Railroad ran through the area and connected Boston"
"Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Styled ""The Pearl of Dorset"", it lies at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset–Devon border. It is noted for fossils found in cliffs and beaches on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast – a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall known as ""The Cobb"" appears in Jane Austen's novel ""Persuasion"", in the John Fowles novel ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", and in the 1981 film of that name, which was partly shot in the town. A former mayor and"
"and later named one of her fictional Quidditch teams as the ""Tutshill Tornados"". Church Cottage, Tutshill Church Cottage in the village of Tutshill, Gloucestershire, England, is a Grade II listed building, thought to have been designed by the architect Henry Woodyer. It was the childhood home, between the ages of 9 and 18, of Joanne Rowling, author (as J. K. Rowling) of the ""Harry Potter"" series of fantasy books. The building was constructed in about 1852 in the Victorian Gothic style, and was originally used as a schoolhouse and then a rectory. Henry Woodyer designed the adjoining St. Luke's Church,"
"Coxwold Coxwold is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England and located within the North York Moors National Park. It is situated 18 miles north of York and is where the Rev. Laurence Sterne wrote ""A Sentimental Journey"". The village name is derived from Saxon words ""Cuc"", meaning ""cry"" and ""valt"", meaning ""wood"". The village is mentioned in the ""Domesday Book"" as part of the ""Yalestre"" hundred by the name of ""Cucvalt"". The lord of the manor at the time of the Norman invasion was ""Kofse"", but passed to ""Hugh, son of Baldric"" and"
"Charles Paget Wade Charles Paget Wade (1883–1956) was an English architect, artist-craftsman and poet; today he is perhaps best remembered for the eclectic collection he amassed during his life, a collection which can be seen at Snowshill Manor, his former home in the village of Snowshill, Gloucestershire, which he gave to the National Trust in 1951. Wade was the son of Paget Augustus (1849–1911) and Amy (1858-1943) Wade, who owned several sugar estates in the West Indies. From an early age, Wade wanted to become an architect. After he qualified as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects"
"Clavell Tower Clavell Tower, also known as Clavell Folly or the Kimmeridge Tower, is a Grade II listed Tuscan style tower built in 1830. It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on the top of Hen Cliff just east of Kimmeridge Bay in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It is now a Landmark Trust property and in August 2006 was moved 25 metres back from the crumbling cliff edge. Clavell Tower was built in about 1830 by Reverend John Richards Clavell of Smedmore House as an observatory and folly. The Reverend John Richards had changed his name to John"
"his ancestors first lived in England, rather than the province in France. ""MAINE"" appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 in reference to the county of Dorset, which is today Broadmayne, just southeast of Dorchester. The view generally held among British place name scholars is that Mayne in Dorset is Brythonic, corresponding to modern Welsh ""maen"", plural ""main"" or ""meini"". Some early spellings are: MAINE 1086, MEINE 1200, MEINES 1204, MAYNE 1236. Today the village is known as Broadmayne, which is primitive Welsh or Brythonic, ""main"" meaning rock or stone, considered a reference to the many large sarsen stones still"
"Agglestone Rock Agglestone Rock, also known as the Devil's Anvil, is a sandstone block of about 400 tonnes weight, perched on a conical hill, approximately 1 mile from the village of Studland, south Dorset. Legend has it that the devil threw the rock from The Needles on the Isle of Wight with the intention of hitting either Corfe Castle, Bindon Abbey or Salisbury Cathedral. ""Aggle"" was taken into the old Dorset dialect as meaning ""to wobble"". The rock is an ""eroded relic of iron-cemented, Tertiary sandstone, the Agglestone Grit"". It used to be anvil-shaped, but has since changed form due"
"Footbridge Cottage, a tiny beehive of a cottage in Gibbings's words, in Long Wittenham on the banks of the Thames. Life there suited Gibbings, and he had a period of tranquility that he had not known previously. They lived there until Gibbings died of cancer in hospital at Oxford on 19 January 1958. He is buried in the churchyard at Long Wittenham. The grave is marked by a simple headstone featuring his device of a crossed quill and graver, carved by Michael Black, a young sculptor who was a friend of Gibbings. Gibbings dominates the period of the modern wood"
"West Ham, Everton and England striker) was made club patron. In birth order: Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Styled ""The Pearl of Dorset"", it lies at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset–Devon border. It is noted for fossils found in cliffs and beaches on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast – a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall known as ""The Cobb"" appears in Jane Austen's novel ""Persuasion"", in the John Fowles novel ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", and in the 1981 film of"
"cliff on what was a large property at 8 View Street, Woolwich. When his daughter-in-law died the property was sold and sub-divided. Aspinall Place, off View Street, was named after the family. Access to the house was lost until stairs were constructed from Werambie Street whence the address was altered to 1a Werambie Street, Woolwich. Albert Aspinall Albert Wood Aspinall (27 December 1839 – 15 December 1903) was an Australian stonemason and builder. He was an expert in constructing round towers and buildings. Aspinall was born in Exley Bank Bottom, Southowram, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He came to Australia"
"close to the cottage, and died in the Bovington Camp hospital on 19 May 1935. The following year, his heir, his brother A. W. Lawrence, gave Clouds Hill to the National Trust. It is now a museum, dedicated to Lawrence. It is open to visitors from March to the beginning of October, seven days a week, from 11am to 5pm. The cottage remains largely as Lawrence left it at his death. It features an exhibition detailing Lawrence's life, and most of his original furniture and possessions. The cottage reflects his complex personality and links to the Middle East. The circular"
"occur on the narrow undercliff and the base is mainly made up of clay material. Fossilized examples of ""Gryphaea dilatata"", commonly called ""devil's toenail"", an extinct species of Jurassic oyster, can be found in the Oxford Clay. In 1816–17, the artist John Constable painted """", including Furzy Cliff, while on his honeymoon, viewed from the beach at Bowlease and looking west. The painting is now in the National Gallery, London. Furzy Cliff Furzy Cliff is located on the coast near the village of Preston, just to the east of Weymouth, Dorset, England. It is at the northeastern end of Weymouth"
"and was noted in his radio broadcasts for his fine Dorset accent. Piddletrenthide Piddletrenthide () is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is sited by the small River Piddle in a valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs, north of Dorchester. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the small village of Plush to the northeast—had 323 dwellings, 290 households and a population of 647. The unusual name of the village is derived from its position on the River Piddle, combined with it having"
"Conygar Tower The Conygar Tower in Dunster, Somerset, England was built in 1775 and has been designated as a Grade II listed building. It is a circular, 3 storey folly tower built of red sandstone, situated on a hill overlooking the village. It was commissioned by Henry Luttrell and designed by Richard Phelps and stands about high so that it can be seen from Dunster Castle on the opposite hillside. There is no evidence that it ever had floors or a roof. The name Conygar comes from two medieval words ""Coney"" meaning rabbit and ""Garth"" meaning garden, indicating that it"
"2003. Poet Paul Farley celebrated Clare's work through this poem on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. The Lament of Swordy Well The Lament of Swordy Well is a poem written by John Clare in the 1830s. Clare personifies an old limestone quarry and heath that was close to his home in Helpston, Northamptonshire, and, using its voice, speaks of the despair it felt at the hardships of the poor and the land around it ever since it has been enclosed by the local parish. The poem is one of Clare's most famous protestation poems. Swordy Well in Marholm, now Swaddywell,"
"Hill known as ""Conygat Tower"", designed by Phelps, visible from the Castle. John Fownes Luttrell (1752–1816), eldest son and heir, of Dunster Castle. In 1770 he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford. He was MP for Minehead (1776–1816). In 1782 he married Mary Drewe (died 1830), daughter (by his 2nd wife) of Francis Drewe (1712–1773) of The Grange, Broadhembury, Devon, High Sheriff of Devon in 1738, by whom he had 5 sons and 4 daughters. John Fownes Luttrell (1787–1857), eldest son and heir, JP, DL, who died unmarried. MP for Minehead 1811–32 Henry Fownes Luttrell (1790–1867), younger brother and heir, JP"