The Mount in Cookham Dean was the childhood home of the author Kenneth Grahame for several key years as a boy, an experience that marked him for life and instilled the love of nature which inspired The Wind in the Willows.
Kenneth Grahame was just five years old when his mother died. In the aftermath of the bereavement, he and his three siblings left their home in Scotland and travelled 500 miles south, to the home of his maternal grandmother: The Mount, in Cookham…
