Hunford Parsonage serves the village of Hunsford, Kent and is under the patronage of the de Bourgh family which dwells at Rosings Park, located only a lane away from the parsonage’s property. Over the house of the novel, it serves as the home of William Collins.
We’re told “The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving. Mr. Collins and Charlotte appeared at the door, and the carriage stopped at the small gate which led by a short gravel walk to the house.” We’re told of the garden that it “was large and well laid out” and tended to by Mr. Collins.
When Lizzy finally gets to look at the house without Collins’ hovering, we’re told “It was rather small, but well built and convenient; and everything was fitted up and arranged with a neatness and consistency of which Elizabeth gave Charlotte all the credit. When Mr. Collins could be forgotten, there was really an air of great comfort throughout, and by Charlotte's evident enjoyment of it, Elizabeth supposed he must be often forgotten.”
