Shaping history

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

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

On the south-western edge of St Albans, winding paths lead into a heart-warming garden that embraces autumn flowers and family memories. The borders are as vibrant and colourful as most gardens’ in mi

Walled gardens are an everyday feature of large country estates, but the splendid example at Broughton Grange defies all expectation. Rather than being a tucked-away working area for growing flowers a

In March 2019, gardener Jo Downes dropped in to Corsley House in Wiltshire to see a friend, and by the time she left she had a job. Glen Senk and Keith Johnson, Anglophile Americans who had bought the

Two great houses, rich with fascinating history and beautifully apportioned, put the county on the map