At the Orchard

We ate among the rustic apple trees, a favorite haunt of the “Neo Pagans,” so dubbed by Virginia Woolf. Poet Rupert Brooke, who took up lodging there in 1909, began gathering around him a group of intellectuals who would soon all be famous. Among them were novelists Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, philosophers Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, economist Maynard Keynes and artist Augustus John. Many other well known figures have also eaten here and we add four more to the list. The quiche and scones were delicious, and of course I found my clotted cream.