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Fletton Towers, Peterborough
History of Fletton Towers
Listed Building
Built between 1841 and 1847 for W Lawrence Clark of the Peace for the Liberty of Peterborough, to his own designs, with kitchen wing etc of 1860s. Large Tudor style stone house with freestone dressings. … Childhood home of novelist L P Hartley.
Mary Liquorice’s book, The Hartleys of Fletton Tower, 1996, brings together the formative influences on the novelist Leslie Poles Hartley’s life from those locations and buildings that his family inhabited.
In his novel The Brickfield, Rookland Abbey is a thinly disguised Crowland Abbey. In the same novel the windmill is most likely Odam’s Mill at Eye which stood next to Eye Green railway station. St Botolph’s Lodge in the same book is probably based on St James’s Lodge, Postland, the home of L P Hartley’s own grandparents. His father was W J Thompson, local councillor in Crowland.
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