- Alfoxton House
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name=Alfoxton House
location_town=Holford
location_country=England
latitude= 51.1638
longitude= -3.2085
map_type=Somerset
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client=John St Albyn
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construction_start_date=
completion_date=1710
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size=Alfoxton House, also known as Alfoxton Park, was built as an 18th century country house in
Holford ,Somerset ,England , within theQuantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty . The present house was rebuilt in 1710 after the previous building was destroyed in a fire. [cite web |url=http://www.information-britain.co.uk/showPlace.cfm?Place_ID=4555 |title=Alfoxton Park Hotel |accessdate=2008-03-09 |format= |work=Information Britain ]Poet
William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived at Alfoxton House between July 1797 and June 1798, during the time of their friendship withSamuel Taylor Coleridge . [cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18623 |title=Stringston |accessdate=2008-03-09 |format= |work=British History Online ] Dorothy began her journals here in January 1798 but discontinued it 2 months later to recommence when the couple moved to the Lake District. These were posthumously published as "The Alfoxden journal, 1798" and "The Grasmere journals, 1800-1803".The building was refenestrated and re-roofed in the 19th century. It has been changed and extended significantly since the time of the Wordsworths to turn it into a country hotel. It has been designated by
English Heritage as a grade IIlisted building . [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=265135 |title=Alfoxton Park Hotel |accessdate=2008-03-09 |format= |work=Images of England ]During
World War II it housed evacuees fromWellington School .cite book |title=Portrait of the Quantocks |last=Waite |first=Vincent |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1964 |publisher=Robert Hale |location=London |isbn=0709111584 |pages= ]References
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