Matt James recalls a littleknown chapter in the history of the Cheshire venue, now more associated with motorsport

For antiques dealer Val Foster and her husband Philip, part of the attraction of moving south from Nottinghamshire some five years ago was the prospect of making a new home. ‘We’d found a property whi

Pass through The Old Rectory’s entrance gate off a country lane and you’ll find yourself travelling along a gently winding drive that’s cradled by stands of evergreen rhododendrons and laurel with can

The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

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Not many people move into a new home only to find enthusiastic strangers routinely turning up looking for a place to stay the night, but if the house in question was once a youth hostel sequestered in