Anyone for Tennyson? The poet's old home on the Isle of Wight makes a fine hotel, says Tiffany Hancock

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: September 7, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

On a cold November evening in 1852, Lord Alfred Tennyson set off for his new home, which he hoped would be "far from noise and smoke of town". He stepped into a small open boat with his wife and servants and rowed across the Solent to the Isle of Wight.

Later that night, he wrote, they arrived at a "house half hid in the gleaming wood" where far off in the distance he could hear "the scream of the madden'd beach dragged down by the waves". It was not an auspicious beginning.

My own arrival at Farringford, Tennyson's old house and now a hotel, was less bleak. A short ferry ride in brilliant ...

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