Twentieth Century Walks

TWENTIETH CENTURY WALKS LIBRARY

Take your pick of Writers Titles and Locations for your Perfect Literary Tour.

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene @ Brighton
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons @ Rural Sussex
Eric Gill's Autobiography @ Ditchling, East Sussex
Longitude by Dava Sobel @ Lewes, East Sussex
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson @ Rye, East Sussex
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf @ Westminster
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell @ London
Our Kate by Catherine Cookson @ Hastings & St.Leonards
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie @Kensington Gardens, London
Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman @ Highgate
The West Pier by Patrick Hamilton @ Brighton
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham @ Brighton
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham @ Midhurst, West Sussex
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell @ Hastings & St. Leonards
The Waste Land (1922) by T.S. Eliot @ The City of London
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne @ Ashdown Forest, East Sussex

Here are a few favourites	Walks last between 90 minutes and 2 hours
The Waste Land 1922	A 2 mile town walk exploring T.S. Eliot's Unreal London including St. Magnus the Martyr Church, Lloyd's Bank, St. Mary Woolnoth, London Bridge, cupolas, Shakespeare, and the voices of London's poets along the way to Moorgate. Starts at London Bridge Station with panoramic views of the City.
Art & God on Ditching Common	A level 3 mile walk exploring the site of the Roman Catholic Guild of St. Joseph & St. Dominic founded in 1920 by Eric Gill & Hilary Pepler. Artists & craftsmen associated with the Guild include David Jones, Edward Johnston, Joseph Cribb, Edgar Holloway, Valentine KilBride and John Skelton. Magnificent views of the South Downs just north of Brighton from Ditchling Common Country Park.
The Berwick Church Walk	A 4 mile level Bloomsbury walk passing Alciston, Tilton and Charleston Farmhouse. We visit Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant's wall paintings in St. Michael and All Angels Church. Excellent pub nearby.