Complex sentence: His childhood home was Lamport Rectory set in the Northamptonshire countryside, he had a great love of the outdoors and enjoyed hunting, fishing and drawing, all these things were to later influence his writing greatly.
Split into simpler sentences: His childhood home was Lamport Rectory, set in the Northamptonshire countryside. He had a great love of the outdoors and enjoyed hunting, fishing and drawing, all these things were to influence his writing greatly.