PANGBOURNE has been home for several well-known people, not least the author of The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame lived in 18th century Church Cottage for the last eight years of his life and met there with E H Shepard, who was said to have been inspired by the Pangbourne countryside to create the illustrations he drew for the re-print of the classic novel. Generations of children have grown up with the adventures of Ratty and Moley messing about on the river, protected from the wild wood on the hill by Badger and the infamous Toad of Toad Hall. Now a true piece of artistic & literary h…
