Celebrating the life and work of Ted Hughes
The Elmet Trust celebrates the life and work of Ted Hughes OM OBE FRSL, poet and children’s author, and one of the nation’s greatest writers. Hughes served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998.
Based in the poet’s birthplace of Mytholmroyd, in Yorkshire’s Upper Calder Valley, the main aim of The Elmet Trust is to foster serious interest in the life and works of Ted Hughes, and to look after his birthplace, 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd. Hughes lived in Aspinall Street until the age of seven, and many of his poems draw on his lifelong love of the Valley’s people and its landscapes.
The Elmet Trust has strong links with the communities of the Upper Valley and works closely with Calderdale Council, the Hughes Estate, the Ted Hughes Network, the Ted Hughes Society, and the Ted Hughes Project (South Yorkshire). Our patron is Simon Armitage CBE, the current Poet Laureate.
Why not join us and help to promote interest in Hughes’s work?
Ted’s House
The Elmet Trust rents out Ted’s House as a holiday let and writer’s retreat, and runs a programme of Hughes-related events throughout the year.
