Madresfield revisited

A short while after we married, Tom and I made the decision to leave behind our hectic London lives and relocate to the tranquillity of rural living. We wanted a slower pace of life where the countrys

“ I met Charles Dickens today, except he had clearly been so busy working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood that he had fallen asleep, so I didn’t get to speak to him!” I laughingly proclaimed to Ro when

Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres

LAST night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .” This is surely one of the most evocatively memorable opening lines to any novel ever written. Personally, I’ve been dreaming all too long of return

Home to a marquess and an RAF air crew – and believed to be the birthplace of a Queen – this red-brick Jacobean mansion contains stories spanning centuries

The garden at Salthrop Manor, Wiltshire The home of Sophie Conran