Low Tharston
Low Tharston is a tiny village which lies on the
River Tas approximately a
mile west of Tasburgh.
In the 1970s the poet and editor Anthony Thwaite and
his wife Ann moved into the Mill House here. (The Mill
House is the pink one in the background.)
For Thwaite it was a refuge from London life and also
proved to be an inspiration for his poetry. Thwaite has
also written a fine poem about the lost village of
Eccles on the Norfolk coast.
Thwaite was Philip Larkin's editor and literary executor
and Larkin visited The Mill House. In fact, there is a
wonderful photograph of Larkin reclining
in a punt on the river which appeared in his volume of
Selected Letters 1940-1985.
By strange coincidence, another poet Edwin Brock
moved into The Granary next door to the Thwaites. The
tiny river Tas provided inspiration for him too.
Here is the opening verse of his poem The Ghost Dancer:
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