Milton's Cottage

Milton's Cottage is a timber-framed 16th-century building in the Buckinghamshire village of Chalfont St Giles.

Milton's friend Thomas Ellwood called the cottage "that pretty box in St. Giles".

The four museum rooms contain the most extensive collection in the world on open display of 17th-century first editions of John Milton's works, both poetry and prose.

Tours vividly describe and explore the extraordinary career of this blind genius in his refuge from the plague, where he wrote some of the finest poetry.

To celebrate the quatercentenary of Milton's birth in 2008, Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, also visited.