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Little Gidding

Here, the intersection of the timeless moment
Is England and nowhere. Never and always.
-T.S. Eliot
from LITTLE GIDDING (No. 4 of 'Four Quartets')

6 Sept 2005 - While Court was visiting, he and Paul decided to make an excursion to Little Gidding. This place in Huntingdonshire has a famous church and (former) community, visited by T.S. Eliot and immortalised in his 'Four Quartets'. It is also quite difficult to reach from Cambridge. First, you have to take a bus to Huntingdon from Cambridge. Then, if it is a Friday and you left Cambridge by 8am, you can take a bus to Little Gidding. Any other day (or if you don't want to get up too early), you can take a bus from Huntingdon to Sawtry and take a nice long walk through the countryside. After their walk and visit to the church, Paul and Court stopped at the obligatory tea room / gift shop and were given a ride back to Sawtry by the woman running the gift shop. It was a long day, but despite the distance and illness, they both seemed to enjoy the day.

Little Gidding has it's own website: http://www.littlegiddingchurch.org.uk/

Part of the walk to Little Gidding Part of the walk to Little Gidding The Church at Little Gidding The entrance to the Church at Little Gidding
The walk from Sawtry to Little Gidding is, quite literally, through the middle of a field.

Inscription Inside the Church at Little Gidding Inside the Church at Little Gidding Court sitting in the Choir of the Little Gidding Church
The inscription over the door reads: 'This is none other but the house of God and the gate of heaven' (Gen 28:17).

Court and the church The belltower Outside the Church at Little Gidding The outside of the Little Gidding Church

The steeple cross The graveyard The centre Stopping to smell the roses outside of the Little Gidding Church

Court and TS Eliot Court at Little Gidding Countryside


Court posed with T.S. Eliot, but then couldn't believe he let Paul take that picture.


7th Oct 2005

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