You come up from the high ground. Clear light, the whole valley legible for once. Underfoot, short turf, and a boulder to spread the paper on.

The Estate Map

The grounds, drawn once, so you may wander without asking.

Nothing here is arranged in an order you must obey. The paths join one another, and the ones you do not take today will be no harder to walk next time.

A hand-drawn watercolour map of the Yaya Nyari Literary Estate seen from above: a stone manor house at the top, a long library wing to the left, a lamplit garden studio to the right, a central courtyard with a great oak and a bench, walled kitchen garden beds, a writing hut, a small archive cottage, and an open iron gate at the bottom where a small grey dog rests. — P010 · The Estate, drawn from the rise above the gate. Touch a marker on the plan to walk to its entry in the guide below.

“Draw the grounds once, and nobody has to ask permission to wander them.”

Written on the back of the plan

Estate map guide

The Manor House
Welcome, the walk in, and the reason for the whole of it.
The Writing Table
About Yaya Nyari — a conversation rather than a biography.
The Four Houses
The Books, each standing as its own building on the grounds.
The Heart of the Estate
Kept on paper, written by hand. The seven things everything else repeats.
The Firefly Room
Reflections written at dusk. The lamp is left on for whoever comes late.
The Library Wing
The Reading Room: essays, chronicles, working papers and the archive.
The Courtyard
Speaking — a circle of chairs set out beneath the oak.
The Letter Box
Letters from the Estate, sent only when there is something worth saying.
The Visitors' Gate
Contact. The gate is left open; you may arrive without warning.

Threads that run through everything

Story connects us
Belonging grounds us
Nature teaches us
Purpose guides us
Wonder awakens us
Charlie walks with us

Every visitor is part of the story. Welcome home.

Walk to the heart of it

Seed head, gathered from the top field

Marked here because it returns each year

The path continues

Take the guided walk
Nine stops, in order, at the pace the Estate was built for.
Straight to the Reading Room
If you already know that the books are what you came for.