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Ronald Blythe - A Word from Wormingford
The author's home in the north Essex village of Wormingford has an intriguing past.
Ronald Blythe was much admired for his writings on the English countryside, in particular his 1969 book Akenfield and weekly Church Times column 'Word from Wormingford'.
The author grew up in Suffolk, but moved to Essex in 1943 and into a Tudor longhouse called Bottengoms in Wormingford. It's where he stayed for the next 80 years.
Following his death in 2023 aged 100, Ronald has left his north Essex home to the Essex Wildlife Trust to become a writer's studio and nature reserve.
The property had a history of changing lives before Ronald inherited it, as historian Dr Mike Walker explains...
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