Talk:Toad Hall (The Wind in the Willows)

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Possible locations/inspirations[edit]

For the avoidance of doubt, this isn't one [1], unless a better source than the DM exists. KJP1 (talk) 17:46, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I looked into it and the place seems quite significant in the creation of Wind in the Willows. It seems quite an interesting place and so I've started an article for it – see The Mount, Cookham Dean.

Now that place is on high ground above the river and its architecture seems too rustic to be the redbrick Toad Hall. But it may have contributed some elements as a favourite family seat. Another place that is closer to the water and which housed a real-life inspiration for Mr Toad is Lullebrook Manor. That seems worthy of mention too.

I must visit these places to get a closer look and take some photos. More anon...

Andrew🐉(talk) 13:32, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Davidson - Excellent additions, many thanks. My personal OR favours Mapledurham or Hardwick for their "mellowed red brick". Fawley Court's too "foreign"; Fowey is stucco; and Foxwarren is anything but mellow! Though at least one biographer disagrees, [2]. But Grahame was writing fiction, and I'm sure he drew inspiration from a range of places/people, which will be ultimately unknowable. But it would certainly make a splendid day out! KJP1 (talk) 13:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]