Places associated with Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie and her husband are buried at St. Mary's Church, Cholsey, Oxfordshire.

In a sense, Christie is buried in deepest Miss Marple territory. Even the church name evokes St. Mary Mead, the town associated with Miss Marple. It is where she attended church.

A mile or two north of Cholsey is the town of Wallingford, where the Christies had their main house, Winterbrook House, from 1934 until her death in 1976. It is still a private house - shown below. The River Thames is behind the camera, across a field.

Neither Wallingford nor Cholsey feels like St. Mary Mead.

Greenway House in Devon is 30 minutes drive from Torquay on the River Dart estuary and it was the Christies' holiday home. It is open to the public. It inspired a number of her mysteries, including Five Little Pigs and Dead Man's Folly.

Christie was born in Torquay, which may account for why Christie and her husband Max Mallowan bought the house in 1938. She still owned her original family house Ashfield which is actually in Torquay, but she sold it in 1940 and in 1962 it was demolished.

The Christies also owned 6 houses in London, mostly as investments (she became very rich in the 1930's). She did live at 58 Sheffield Terrace in Holland Park/Kensington from 1934 to 1941, where she wrote 16 novels, including Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia.