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Charleston Farmhouse opens as Bloomsbury retreat near Lewes
Charleston Farmhouse near Lewes in East Sussex, home to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, becomes a restored visitor site linked to the Bloomsbury Group. The house, art filled and comfortable, hosted Woolfs, Strachey, Forster and others, with works and decor echoing 18th century origins and ongoing restoration plans.
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Charleston
Sussex Dons
London
Bloomsbury
Picasso
Toulouse
Lautrec
Venessa Bell
Duncan Grant
Lewes
Sussex Downs
Bell
Grant
St. Wis
Vanessa
Quentin Bell
England
South Downs
Beachy Head
Brighton
Rye
Channel Ports
Gatwick Airport
Virginia Woolf
Virginia
Clive Bell
Angelica
Duncan
Lytton Strachey
Leonard ‘Woolf
Eliot
Roger Fry
E.M. Forster
Benjamin Britten
Frederik Ashton
Bertrand Russell
John Maynard Keynes
Keynes
Strachey
Firse Beacon Towers
Grant and Bell
Bloomsbury Group
Walley Garden
Ais Deng
Monks House
Woolfs
Leonard
Kent
Knole
Sissinghurst Castle Gardens
Vita Sackville-West
East Sussex
Bateman
Firle Place
Gage
Generst Gage
Alfriston
National Trust
Bodiam
Great Dixter
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Sissinghurst
Firle
Laura Ashley
British Fabrics and Fashions Company