Barnhill, Jura
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Barnhill is a solitary farmhouse, remotely situated at grid reference in the north of the island of Jura
in the Scottish Hebrides. It stands on the site of a larger settlement known in Gaelic since the fifteenth century as Knockintavil, the English name Barnhill having only been in use since the early twentieth century. The house has become famous as having briefly been the home of the British novelist George Orwell
, who lived there intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1950, and who completed his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
while living there. Despite its isolation, Barnhill has in recent years become something of a shrine for Orwellians.
Jura, Scotland
Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, situated adjacent and to the north-east of Islay. Part of the island is designated as a National Scenic Area. Until the twentieth century Jura was dominated - and most of it was eventually owned - by the Campbell clan of Inveraray Castle on Loch...
in the Scottish Hebrides. It stands on the site of a larger settlement known in Gaelic since the fifteenth century as Knockintavil, the English name Barnhill having only been in use since the early twentieth century. The house has become famous as having briefly been the home of the British novelist George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...
, who lived there intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1950, and who completed his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party...
while living there. Despite its isolation, Barnhill has in recent years become something of a shrine for Orwellians.