Photo of Rodmell, a village in the South Downs, East Sussex, south east England.

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Rodmell

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Rodmell is a flint-and-thatch village in the Ouse valley below the Downs. Monk’s House here was Virginia Woolf’s country home; the National Trust keeps it, with her writing lodge out in the garden. Southease station is the nearest, under a kilometre away, on the Lewes–Seaford line.

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