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Chalfont St. Giles lies down in the valley of the Misbourne, across the high road which runs left and right, and past the Pheasant Inn. It is a place made famous by Milton’s residence here, when he fled London and the Great Plague. The cottage—the “pretty cot,” as he aptly calls it, taken for him by Thomas Ellwood, the Quaker—is still standing, and is the last house on the left-hand side of the long village street. The poet could only have known it to be a “pretty cot” by repute, for he was blind.

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Cycle Rides Round London
Author: Charles G. Harper
Published in 1902
Available from www.gutenberg.org

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Monday 8 November 2021

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Famous Homesteads, Place:England, Place:London

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