Enid Blyton's Garden (with the house The Old Thatch)

Description

Old Thatch is a 17th century thatched home - too impressive to be called a "cottage" - on the banks of the Thames, about 40 kms west of London in Coldmoorholme Lane, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. It is a perfect setting to inspire a writer with a vivid imagination, which is one reason children's author Enid Blyton penned many of her most memorable stories here. Old Thatch was Enid Blyton's home from 1929 to 1938, and where her two daughters, Gillian and Imogen, were born. As Blyton related in ...