John Milton and Chalfont St Giles
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This year marks the 400th birthday of John Milton, the great English poet and parliamentarian who resided in the village Chalfont St Giles. This beautiful village is only a stones throw from The Bull Hotel and is home to Milton’s cottage which is now a museum open to the public. In 1665, 23 years before the Bull Hotel was opened to the public, John Milton and his wife moved into the cottage to escape the plague in London. Whilst at the cottage Milton completed his best known work Paradise Lost and the idea of Paradise Regained was put to him....
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