Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories, once visited the Hill House Hotel, now Hill House Inn, while on a motoring holiday in Norfolk in 1903. While there, the landlord’s son showed the author a signature he had created using ‘pin men’. It is believed that this incident provided the inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes story titled ‘The Dancing Men’. The story is also set in Norfolk and features a local squire with the same surname as the landlord and his son. The pub has two plaques on the wall commemorating the visit.
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| The Hill House Inn, Happisburgh - geograph.org.uk - 7694731. Photo by Sandy Gerrard, via Wikimedia Commons. |
The Hill House Inn lies in the village of Happisburgh, which is on the coast of Norfolk, about 14 miles from Cromer. As well as the cosy interior, the outside of the property includes an interesting building which was built as a signal box for a railway which never materialised.
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