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Christie, Wilde, Dickens, Shaw and more

Type:Guided Walk

English Riviera Visitor Information Centre, 5 Vaughan Parade, TORQUAY, Devon, TQ2 5JG
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A woman in a wide-brimmed sunhat sits reading a paperback, with a view of the sea and far Paignton shoreline.
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Christie, Wilde, Dickens, Shaw and more (7 May 2024)
Christie, Wilde, Dickens, Shaw and more (16 May 2024)

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THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE ENGLISH RIVIERA WALKING FESTIVAL

By the beginning of the 20th century Torquay was the richest town in the nation and many of our famous writers and poets visited, or lived in the resort. We will hear of their time in Torquay as we stroll through the glamorous Queen of The English Riviera, a place they (mostly) came to love! Among others we will include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Lord Tennyson, Agatha Christie, James Joyce, and TS Eliot.

Learn about Torquay’s many famous literary visitors

Visit Agatha Christie’s beach

Stroll along the Victorian Promenade to experience what attracted so many Victorian and Edwardian writers and poets

Amble through Torre Abbey and the Italianate Gardens, as so many writers and poets did before us

Climb to Rock Walk’s viewing platform and listen to some of the poems written from that vantage point

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Adult: £12.00 pp (inc VAT)
6-17 years: £7.20 pp (inc VAT)
5 years and under: free

3 miles

2 hours

Walk begins at 10.00am

Fairly Easy

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The English Riviera Visitor Information Centre,
Vaughan Parade,
Torquay
TQ2 5JG

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