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Evening Standard
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Cat Olley

‘There is no other property like it in London’: Enfield cottage once home to Charles Lamb for sale for £1.6m

The essayist Charles Lamb regularly extolled the virtues of Enfield in letters to his tight literary circle, which included Wordsworth and Coleridge.

“I shall do very well,” he wrote in one short missive to Charles Cowden Clarke. “The sunshine is medicinal, as you will find when you venture hither some fine day. Enfield is beautiful.”

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