Farringford is undergoing extensive restoration. It is being restored, as far as possible, back to how it would have looked when it's most famous resident wrote in the study and gazed at the stars from the rooftop.
On the 210th anniversary of Tennyson’s Birthday he describes birthdays as a time when we look both forwards and backwards…
This line of Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline was said to be the last line that Tennyson read before he died…
Tennyson is a very well quoted poet, even recited by Dame Judi Dench as ‘M’ towards the end of the 007 film Skyfall from his poem Ulysses.…
Tennyson was always a performer, and concentrated very much on his looks. During his years at Farringford he grew the large beard which subsequently became famous. . .…
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