Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FARRINGFORD

FARRINGFORD, the residence of Alfred Tennyson, Esq., the poet laureate, in the Isle of Wight; 1 mile WNW of Freshwater-Gate, and 2¾ SSW of Yarmouth. It is a comfortable mansion, sheltered with trees; and was thus described by himself, in an invitation to the Rev. F. D. Maurice:-

Where, far from smoke and noise of town,
I watch the twilight falling brown
All round a careless ordered garden,
Close to the ridge of a noble down.
You'll have no scandal while you dine,
But honest talk and wholesome wine,
And only hear the magpie gossip
Garrulous under a roof of pine.
For groves of pine on either hand,
To break the blast of winter, stand;
And further on, the hoary Channel
Tumbles a breaker on chalk and sand.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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