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  • Tennyson Country - I loved the brimming wave that swam
    Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill.
    The sleepy pool above the dam
    The pool beneath it never still.
    The meal sacks on the whiten’d floor
    The dark round of the dripping wheel,
    The very air above the door
    Made misty with the floating meal.
    Lovers of the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be familiar with these lines from ‘The Millers Daughter’, and those who know the southern Lincolnshire Wolds will recognise the setting as Stockwith Mill, a place the poet knew well when he was a young man.
    Alfred Tennyson was born at Somersby on 5th August 1809, the fourth son of the Reverend George Tennyson, rector of Somersby and Bag Enderby. He grew up - where the wolds first rise up out of the vast fen and amble north through places with such odd names as Hagworthingham, Mavis Enderby and Ashby Puerorum - is beautiful and as yet undiscovered. It has been known as ‘Tennyson Country’ for at least a century, but notwithstanding the appeal of its narrow, wooded valleys, its leafy lanes and its connections with the poet, this corner of the country remains unspoiled.
    There is no World of Tennyson Experience to be found here, and you cannot buy a Tennyson tea towel or a Tennyson spice rack, even for real money. For those with the patience to seek it out, however, the waterwheel at Stockwith Mill was restored to working order in 1981; and here, too, is a little permanent exhibition, which will tell you all you need to know about Lincolnshire’s most famous literary son.
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