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LGBT History Month: East Dorset home to 'the last literary salon of Britain'
Long Crichel's rectory was bought in the 1940s by four gay men.
They turned it into a hub of art and culture - and were visited by people like Greta Garbo, EM Forster, Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene - at a time when homosexuality was illegal in the UK.
Later Patrick Trevor-Roper moved in; he was one of the founders of the Terrence Higgins Trust. He is buried nearby.
Rachel Morley, the Director of Friends of Friendless Churches told us the story.
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