An estate of your own

The Editor enjoys days with trout and nights in an old oak at a famous Westcountry fishing hotel

The Helmsdale may have had a heart-sinkingly slow start to the season, but a week’s adventuring on the famed river still offers plenty to write home about

Rob Hardy enjoys atmospheric salmon fishing at a welcoming family-run estate

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River, meadow and wood converge around an old mill in Hampshire, where changing vistas create a bond between garden and landscape

“ 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