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Snowdrop shows signal spring’s arrival
The annual Shepton Snowdrop Festival will return for its 10th year this February, in celebration of the joyful flower.
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RHS to run two new touring shows at Badminton and at the royal estate at Sandringham
The King will collaborate with a designer on the RHS Royal Legacy Garden at the Sandringham flower show.
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A grand seven-bedroom manor house with 11 acres, stables, 600 metres of river front and space for a grand piano
Amid the beautiful countryside of south-west Scotland, you'll find Kings Grange Manor — a house that offers a huge amount for under the £1 million mark.
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'If romance was a property, this would be it': A wonderful Georgian house in a conservation village in the heart of West Sussex
At the centre of a circle which takes in Chichester, Arundel, the South Downs and the South Coast, Eastergate House is a home which ticks every box.
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John Constable's old school is for sale, and it's now a 500-year-old house in the wonkiest village in Britain
Amid the gorgeously misshapen houses of Lavenham in Suffolk, The Old Grammar School is a beautiful home with a fascinating tale to tell.
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What do Taylor Swift, Guy Ritchie and The King have in common? They all love a 200-year-old fabric born in Scotland’s textile mills
Lovat Mill, the last tweed producer in the Scottish Borders, has fans in Madonna, Taylor Swift and The King — and they’re releasing 15 new designs to celebrate the fabric’s 200 year anniversary.
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A six-bedroom Highland lodge on the shores of Loch Ness for the price of a modest London flat
Sealladh an Loch is an eco-friendly dream home that feels like it could pay for itself. Julie Harding takes a look.
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A huge farmhouse that mixes Georgian charm with an 80 foot party barn and a swimming pool
If the Christmas and New Year period left you hankering after a home where you could really go to town with your celebrations, Julie Harding has the answer: a house with a huge party barn.
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A Georgian farmhouse that's an 'absolute gem' in an ancient village on Salisbury Plain
Julie Harding takes a look at the beautiful West Farm in a gorgeous Wiltshire village.
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It'd be crazy to buy this 500-year-old farmhouse just because of its utterly gorgeous Aga — so thank goodness that the rest of this place is also really nice
Perry Mill Farm is an immaculate yet characterful four-bedroom dream home in the country at a price that will make city dwellers immediately start Googling 'working from Worcestershire'.
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Farmers of Britain, go forth and grow prawns
A new study has proposed that farmers could start growing king prawns to diversify income streams.
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A 14-bedroom 'miniature Downton Abbey' to call your own — and there's not a penny of Mansion Tax to be paid
Norton Manor is an incredible period home that's on the market for £1.3 million.
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The Budget: What do we need to fix a broken countryside, and what will we get?
With the Autumn Budget looming, countryside and heritage organisations reveal what they are hoping to hear to fix the turmoil — and what they are dreading
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The thatched cottage dream at these five beautiful country homes, from £425,000 to £1.2 million
Julie Harding and Toby Keel pick out some of the prettiest thatched cottages and houses for sale today across England.
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A simply perfect thatched cottage in Devon, with charm, walled gardens and all the space you need for family life
Thatched cottages are often pretty, but pretty small — but Julie Harding finds one brings which blends cottage charm with the space of a country manor.
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Items from the collection of Lady Glenconner are going under the hammer, including a nine-carat gold Cartier box gifted to her by Elizabeth II
‘I have had such great pleasure living with these wonderful objects, each telling their own fascinating story.’
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Five home offices so good that every work day will feel like a holiday (well, probably)
Five years on from the Pandemic, millions of us are still working from home much of the time — and thus the appeal of a home office is as strong as ever. They don't much nicer than these.
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Retro rubbish: Waste from the 90s unearthed in 97-mile-long beach clean
The 6,482 volunteers unearthed waste discarded decades ago among the 232,229 pieces of litter recorded during the initiative.
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'Never has there been a more important time to publicise great Victorian and Edwardian buildings in peril': The importance of saving our historic buildings
For the 16th year, the Victorian Society is calling on the public to nominate Victorian or Edwardian buildings in England and Wales that are in need of saving.
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'My family wore wool at a time when everyone else had cast it off in favour of manmade fabrics': The knitwear pioneer who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
Julie Harding speaks to Rachel Carvell-Spedding the founder of British knitwear brand Navygrey, and one of David Beckham's countryside champions.
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Barbecue it like Beckham: The 'lamb man' who taught David Beckham about fire cooking
Tom Bray, is co-founder and director of Fire Made, a Somerset-based company specialising in outdoor cookery accessories and barbecues. He's also one of the countryside champions nominated by Sir David Beckham in his guest edit. Tom spoke to Julie Harding.
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'Seeing the work that people are doing all around the world has given me hope for the future': The young naturalist who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
Julie Harding speaks to Ramandeep Nijjar, a young naturalist who has made an impact on the world even before finishing university, and one of David Beckham's countryside champions.
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This Suffolk home is a perfect escape from the world and it comes with its own stretch of river and 20 acres
This idyllic home in Suffolk is the perfect village home.
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The rapid decline of our local abattoirs means we can no longer claim to be a country with leading animal welfare standards
Once the backbone of ethical, small-scale meat production, these essential processors are disappearing fast.
