Visit Milton's Cottage

Milton's Cottage is a timber framed 16th century building located in the Buckinghamshire village of Chalfont St Giles. In 1665 John Milton and his wife, moved into the cottage to escape the Plague in London. Despite the fact that Milton spent less than a year at the cottage, it is important because of it being his only extant residence. While at the Grade 1 listed sixteenth-century cottage Milton completed his best known work, Paradise Lost; the seeds for Paradise Regained were also sown here.