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    The Road Most Travelled
    Future Publishing Ltd, 121–141 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London W2 6JR 0330 390 6591; www.countrylife.co.uk ARE we nearly there yet?’ If you are driving west on the A303, chances are, you aren’t. This arterial route to the delights of Devon and
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    Country Life
    Editor-in-Chief Mark Hedges Editor’s PA/Editorial Assistant Amie Elizabeth White 6102 Telephone numbers are prefixed by 0330 390 Deputy Editor Kate Green 4171 Managing & Features Editor Paula Lester 6426 Architectural Editor John Goodall Gardens Edit
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    Under The Cornish Sun
    IN the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain’s coastline was dotted with artists’ colonies. From Walberswick in Suffolk and Staithes in Yorkshire to Cullercoats near the Tyne and Kirkcudbright in Galloway, the quays and coves of small fishing v
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    The Cream Of The Crop
    RICH, sumptuously thick, spoonable and ivory white, with a trademark primrose-coloured crust, indulgent clotted cream is created to partner many mouthwatering edibles. From apple pie and fresh strawberries to brownies, it can infuse something already
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    A True Test Of Nettle
    THE stinging nettle or nettle, Urtica dioica, is almost certainly the first wild plant that came to your attention. Perhaps, when you were still in short trousers, your grandmother insisted you sit on a bench through which nettles grew, as happened t
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    Safe Havens Of The West
    THE ancient Wiltshire parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury on the western side of the River Avon, bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to Devizes, now the A36
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    The Contented Garden
    The garden of Chilcombe House, Dorset The home of the Hubbard family I LAST visited Chilcombe House more than 30 years ago when it belonged to the acclaimed American painter John Hubbard, who, for 50 years, made his home in England with his wife, Car
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    A Game Of Two Halves
    IT’S like this from quarter to 12 until about 4pm,’ says Paul Rothe, surveying the hectic scene inside 35, Marylebone Lane, London W1. ‘One minute, there’s nobody around; the next, all hell breaks loose.’ His sandwich shop, the capital’s oldest (esta
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    Kitchen Garden Cook Tarragon
    ▸ Preheat your oven to 180˚C/350˚F/gas mark 4. ▸ Rub oil over the potatoes and bake for an hour or until cooked through. Scoop out the flesh into a bowl. Mix in the egg yolks and then sprinkle over the flour—you may find you need slightly more or les
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    Romancing The Stone
    FROM a distance, the nearly completed walled enclosure, where two figures are companionably chipping away at one of the walls, could be mistaken for a sheepfold. In fact, this is a workshop space in the middle of a field at the Somerset estate of The
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    Walking With Giants
    BENEATH Plymouth’s Royal Citadel are two carvings of giants, a Cerne Abbas in duplicate. Their extra-ordinary story can be found within the weighty tomes of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain, albeit eclipsed by the sexier leg
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    The Legacy Sir Peter Scott And Wildfowl Conservation
    MAKE the boy interested in natural history if you can… Guard him against indolence,’ wrote Capt Robert Scott in his last letter to his wife. Peter Scott (1909–89) was only two when his father perished in Antarctica in 1912, but that small boy grew up
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    A Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Lop Bam Boom
    IT used to be claimed that, in its heyday, the Daily Express was read by everyone from ‘a Duke to a dustman’. And, indeed, back when I was briefly its Fishing Correspondent, I fished with both, although never simultaneously. I’m no social anthropolog
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    A Valley Of Delightful Beauty
    Hartland Abbey, Devon, part I A seat of Sir Hugh and Lady Stucley MARVELLOUSLY situated in a tranquil valley along the rugged Atlantic coast of Devon, Hartland Abbey seems at first glance like a Regency house in the Gothic style so beloved by the lat
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    Not Gardening
    AS usual after a holiday, I returned home to discover that the garden had put on a massive growth spurt. The roses that had only just been setting out their leaves were beginning to bud, the cornflowers had quadrupled in size and were generously offe
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    Athena
    FOR the Frontispiece of COUNTRY LIFE on July 3, 1920, Mrs Edward Hussey was not photographed in a studio, but at her home, seated on a balustrade overlooking the ruins of Scotney Castle, Kent. There was a good reason for this departure; the architect
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    Does The Apple Fall Far From The Tree?
    IN order to succeed at succession, there needs to be a solid plan in place, yet 42% of estate owners in the UK don’t have one, finds a new report by Historic Houses (HH) and chartered accountants and business advisors Saffery. Mitigating the perils o
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    Bread of Britain
    THE countryside is first and foremost about farming. Over the centuries, agriculture has created the British landscape. We rightly talk of farmers’ roles in protecting the environment, recovering our biodiversity and fighting climate change, but we m
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    Claws For Celebration
    A MEMBER of the cast of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a dog called Crab. The only canine to appear in a Shakespearean play, Crab is a naughty dog. He steals a chicken and widdles on a lady’s dress. His master, Lance, says: ‘I think Crab, my dog, be
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    Bridge And Crossword
    A prize of £25 in book tokens will be awarded for the first correct solution opened. Solutions must reach Crossword No 4831, Country Life, 121–141 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, W2 6JR, by Tuesday, May 28. UK entrants only 1 Suffering simila
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    My Favourite Painting Alison Weir
    ‘This painting evokes the beauty and mystery of an English summer. It has a haunting quality, enhanced by the juxtaposition of light and shade. The dense trees appear to overwhelm the players: there is something almost sinister about them. The painti
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    The Forbidden Flower
    THIN scents like lilac are far more suitable for women of the Saxon type, and it is best to leave carnation, musk, and tuberose to the languorous beauties of the harem.’ Such a sentence is not one that might be expected from a 1922 edition of the Pen
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    Town & Country Notebook
    1) Which band headlined the first Glastonbury Festival (then the Pilton Pop, Folk and Blues Festival) in 1970? 2) Calluna plants are more commonly known by what name? 3) Grizedale Forest is located in which National Park? 4) Which BBC offering is the
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    A Bit Of Light Relief
    ONE of the many joys of classic English and American decoration is the clarity of its four fundamental tenets: timeless good looks, comfort, a bit of creativity and nothing that will scare the horses. Stray into more modish genres and you find prevai
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    Heaven Scent
    BRITAIN smelled awful in the past. Refuse filled the streets, sanitation was primitive and people were strangers to regular bathing. To fend off the stench, the Georgians took to carrying around, suspended from a chatelaine (belt hook), little silver
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    Moor Is More
    Set within seven acres bordered by the River Camel, just outside the hamlet of Dunmere, about two miles from Bodmin, five-bedroom, three-bathroom The Dairy marries traditional and modern to allow for tranquil multi-generational living; there are two
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    Curiouser And Curiouser
    MIGHT one assume that the buyer of lot 820 in Woolley & Wallis’s ‘Parker & Morris: The Art of Decorating’ auction last month was not a dedicated gardener? Surely, even the greenest-fingered would baulk at paying £2,394 for 17 snail shells. However, i
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    Why We Love (and Hate) The A303
    HURTLING west, bound perhaps for the soft sand beaches of south Devon or the thunderous surf of Cornwall, brings the promise of lazy days, picnicking alfresco, immersion in an absorbing book, invigorating clifftop walks and a brief hiatus from the hu
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    Joe, Queen Of The Glen
    NO. Not that one,’ said my wife, as I rifled through her dresses. ‘And not that one either,’ when I held a dark floaty number up against me in the mirror. ‘That’s a Zandra Rhodes I inherited from my aunt and she had a very small waist.’ She handed me
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    Letters To The Editor
    YOU suggest that Jerusalem was written from Felpham, West Sussex, where William Blake (right) was living at the time (‘A celebration of local pride’, May 1). Local belief is that Blake composed the poem when gazing over the South Downs towards the Tr

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