John Clare

[Top Cat2]

Where did the poet John Clare first meet his future wife, Patty? I have found Tickencote. Any help appreciated.

[Mctavish]

Pickworth or Tickencote

[Mctavish]

Patty lived in Tickencote. Hope this helps you

[Etch]

The first of the 2 locations mentioned here looks good to me:
http://www.johnclare.info/chronology.htm

[Mctavish]

Etch - I think you could be right.
1817 Lime-burning at Great Casterton and Pickworth in Rutland; meets Martha ('Patty') Turner, his future wife.
Therefore Pickworth

[Etch]

Mctavish

I still prefer the first location.

Top Cat2

If your question is connected to the Sunday Times Where Was I? then this should help settle it:
http://www.rutnet.co.uk/pp/gold/viewGold.asp?I DType=Page&ID=13994

[over18]

Etch - why don't you just point Top Cat2 to the website where you posted the answers at 12.03 this morning?

[Etch]

over18

Because:
a) Like you, I prefer not to give the answers directly on AB.
b) Unlike you, I prefer not to advertise the existence of the other site you refer to.

[over18]

Thanks for that, Etch. However I don't understand why it's OK by you to post the answers on one site, but not on AB. By the way, I have never disclosed the name or address of the other site.

[Top Cat2]

I have found this extract:
Every Sunday afternoon, the labourers at Mr. Wilder's lime-kiln were in
the habit of visiting a small public-house, at the hamlet of Tickencote,
called 'the Flower Pot.' Thirsty, like all of their tribe, they spent
hours in carousing; while John Clare, after having had his glass or two,
went into the fields, and, sitting by a hedge, or lying down under a
tree, surveyed the glories of nature, feasting his eyes upon the
thousandfold beauties of earth and sky. It was on one of these Sunday
afternoons, in the autumn of 1817--Clare now past twenty-four--that he
saw for the first time 'Patty,' his future wife. She was walking on a
footpath across the fields, while he was lying in the grass not far off,
dreaming worlds of beauty and ethereal bliss.
http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Life-of-John-Clar e1.html