Milton's Head - Spring Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK.
N 53° 15.564 W 001° 54.622
30U E 572685 N 5901681
This is a pub sign with a literary reference.
Waymark Code: WMEE9H
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/15/2012
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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, scholar and civil servant.
Best known for his reflective poem, Paradise Lost, he also held the intriguing governmental post of Secretary of Foreign Languages. He is known to have travelled extensively in Europe.
Milton was an enthusiastic supporter of Cromwell's Commonwealth and was one of many arrested after the restoration of the monarchy.
It is not clear that he had links to Derbyshire, although it is likely that he would have visited the town to take the waters, if not the beer.
Milton died of kidney failure.
Name of Artist: Not known.
Date of current sign: Not known.
Date of first pub on site: Not known.
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