The Tithe Farm Estate is called the poet’s estate because town planners used the names of well-known English poets and an American poet.

Robert Bridges was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930.

Samuel Coleridge wrote poems including the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet, and his poems include Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

John  Masefield was Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967

Alfred Tennyson was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign.

William Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until 1850.

This year the Tithe Farm Estate and the adjoining Ladygrove Estate have a joint Advent Calendar window display.