Granville and the Porch House Bed & Breakfast are a unique, New England village and inn transplanted from Massachusetts to central Ohio. The town, population 3000 or so, boasts wonderful Victorian architecture, and manicured landscapes. From fall to spring our numbers increase by a couple thousand when Denison University is in session. This prestigious liberal arts institution sits atop a hill and surveys the village below it. Unlike much of the area around it, Granville is hilly. The glaciers during the ice age could not budge the hard shale that serves as the town's foundation, and so went around it instead. Though not large the town is home to many fine restaurants, gift stores, and other interesting retail ventures, that for the most part, are within walking distance of Granville's Porch House Bed & Breakfast. So much history comes alive in the village, that it takes three museums to display it all. The Robbins Hunter Museum is a striking Greek Revival mansion, circa 1836, that graces the main stree. Here visitors can step back into time and listen to docents explain life in the Victorian Era. A block away you'll find the Granville Historical Museum, a smaller collection of interesting artifacts housed in the town's first bank building. And just around the corner from that, sits the Granville Lifestyle Museum, an historic home that periodically changes its displays of Vicorian and early twentieth-century lifestyles and is open by appointment. You don't want to miss this museum's famous "Victorian Undergarments" presentation. And since you're downtown, stop in at any of the four "Corner" churches that stand like sentinels at the corner of Broadway and Main. Episcopal, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist faiths are represented here, and each edifice sports singular architecture and fascinating history. Ready to get out of town, away from Granville and the Porch House Bed & Breakfast. Well, you're just a short bike ride from a number of attraction. Northeast, a hoalf-hour to forty-five minutes, is Amish country. This area in Holmes County is home to the largest Amish population in the world. Plan on spending the whole day exploring the back roads, quaint villages, artisans'shops -- and don't forget about the food! Yes, you'll need to go on a diet after a couple meals here. Just east of Granville and the Porch House Bed & Breakfast, you can park your bikes at the Longaberger Homestead, an eclectic village of shops and restaurants that support the famous Longaberger Basket Company, purveyor of fine baskets in Dresden, Ohio. There's much more to see, but you'll want to make Granville and the Porch House Bed & Breakfast your headquarters when you visit scenic Licking County, Ohio.