Field Place, near Horsham, was the Shelley family home. Here the young Percy Bysshe grew up with his four adoring younger sisters. He would tell them stories of the Old Snake that lived in the grounds, and of the legendary Great Tortoise that haunted nearby Warnham Pond. He would dress up in disguises, and conduct innumerable scientific experiments. After his expulsion from Oxford, elopement with Harriet Westbrook, and subsequent estrangement from his father, Shelley was effectively banned from this comfortable world. He last visited Field Place in the summer of 1815. His father and the three youngest children were away, but he saw his mother, his two older sisters, and the old butler, Laker.