Music Inspired by Watership Down previous album "Attic Thoughts". However, beyond its title, the "Music Inspired by Watership Down" album contains few overt references to the novel and instead features excerpts from the works of various poets, such as John Keats and Alexander Pope. "Music Inspired by Watership Down" was originally released in Sweden as "El-Ahrairah" by YTF Records in 1977. This title was taken directly from the pages of "Watership Down", with El-Ahrairah being the name of a trickster, folk hero-deity rabbit, known as "The Prince with a Thousand Enemies". The album was subsequently released with its English title by Charisma Records in the
Kingsclere and its sign proclaims it a "15th C. Rooming Inn". The nearby Watership Down is the setting for the 1972 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. Watership Down was also the site of the 1982 World Field Archery Championship put on by the Overton Black Arrows archery club from the nearby village of Overton. The actress Lavinia Fenton, most famous for her role as the first Polly Peachum in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, was lover and then wife of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton of the parish. Their eldest son, Rev. Charles Powlett, was briefly vicar