Munnings moved to Castle House in Dedham in 1919 and lived there until his death. The beauty of the landscape on the Essex/Suffolk border was a continual source of inspiration to him. In the second volume of his autobiography, 'The Second Burst' (Suffolk, 1951), he recalls a painting trip in canoes: 'We paddled yet farther up-stream, and on to Wiston and Wormingford - disturbing the coots ... No sleeping landscape-painter could ever dream of her rich beauty and peace of the scene towards Wiston Mill, or of the thatched barns and the little church near the river' (A. Munnings, op. cit., p.50)