Unlike the other locations placed in the titles of the "Four Quartets" poems, Eliot had no direct biographical connection to the actual Little Gidding, and the town is supposed to represent almost any religious community.
Unlike the other locations placed in the titles of the "Four Quartets" poems, Eliot had no direct biographical connection to the actual Little Gidding because the original town was destroyed by the time he visited the location. As such, the town is supposed to represent almost any religious community.