Just upstream from Flatford Mill, the 16th century thatched cottage houses an exhibition on landscape painter John Constable, several of whose paintings famously depict this property. A short walk downstream takes you to the quiet mill pool, where beyond is Willy Lott’s cottage, where mill-hand Willy Lott lived reputedly for 88 years. This is the scene of Constable’s best known work, and after the Mona Lisa probably one of the world’s most instantly recognisable paintings - “The Hay Wain”.