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Burwash, Sussex: a gentle view

This is the gentle view from St Bartholomew’s churchyard in Burwash, Sussex. It’s hard to imagine a more tranquil setting for one’s final resting place.

 

Not far from the churchyard is Bateman's, the home of the writer Rudyard Kipling and his family for 35 years. Kipling was well aware of his literary reputation – he was, after all, a Nobel Laureate in Literature and the most famous writer in the English language – and his ashes rest in Westminster Abbey. But I wonder whether he’d rather they were here, in the charming and peaceful village that was his home for so many years.

 

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Uploaded on August 4, 2019
Taken on July 24, 2019