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New kids on the block
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New kids on the block

Exciting developments and new-builds shaking up the property world

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April 20, 2022
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High endeavours

Glorious houses high in the hills of Derbyshire and Staffordshire compete with a landmark Cornish property for the best view

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April 13, 2022
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Down the rabbit hole

Pie filling, pest or pet of underrated beauty, the rabbit is a mute and gregarious commoner that will nonetheless scream, fight and kill when warranted, says John Lewis-Stempel

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April 13, 2022
The secret appeal of scurvy grass
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The secret appeal of scurvy grass

A delicate brassica that even its mother would struggle to call pretty, the sea kale can compete with asparagus for the title of ‘taste of spring’, reveals Tom Parker Bowles

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April 13, 2022
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A land of milk and Cheddar

In their latest celebration of West Country people, places and produce, ‘Deepest’ book authors Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Weir explore why Somerset is so different from its neighbouring counties

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April 13, 2022
The Great Map of Scotland
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The Great Map of Scotland

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, in an essay written near the end of his life on the genesis of Treasure Island, expressed disbelief that there were people who did not care about maps. ‘The names, the shapes of the woodlands, the courses of the roads and rivers, the prehistoric footsteps of man still traceable up hill and down dale… Here is an inexhaustible fund of interest for any man with eyes to see or twopence-worth of imagination to understand with!’

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April 13, 2022
Paradise in the Garden of England
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Paradise in the Garden of England

The view has changed since Chaucer’s day, but the important things survive

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April 13, 2022
Crusading spirit: Bunting War Memorial Chapel, Scotch Corner, North Yorkshire
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Crusading spirit: Bunting War Memorial Chapel, Scotch Corner, North Yorkshire

A War Memorial Chapel in a remote, but magnificent spot stands as a monument to the sculptor who created it.

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April 13, 2022
He was of his time
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He was of his time

Vaughan Williams, who was born 150 years ago, is largely seen as a pastoral composer, but there was far more to him than that

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April 13, 2022
A glad hand for gladioli
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A glad hand for gladioli

I LOVE gladioli, but I realise that many readers may not share my passion. Good taste has much to answer for. The corblimey gladioli you see in other people’s gardens are anathema to strict and peculiar plantsmen; so are dahlias and chrysanths. People like us don’t grow them. The only acceptable gladioli are the wild ones you see in Mediterranean pastures and olive groves.

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April 13, 2022
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A colour symphony

Flamingos may draw the crowds, but it is the brilliant flower borders that keep people coming back to this wonderful garden.

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April 13, 2022
Take me home
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Take me home

Private members' club 5 Hertford Street has precipitated a quiet revolution in interior design through colour, comfort and decoration for decoration's sake. Now, its founder has launched a collection that embodies his approach to living

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April 06, 2022
What Cath did next
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What Cath did next

Having turned her distinctive style into a much-loved business, Cath Kidston brought a beautiful 17th-century house in the Cotswolds back to life. Now, she's back at the drawing board

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April 06, 2022
The future's bright
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The future's bright

Colourful tables, selected

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April 06, 2022
An absurd little bird
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An absurd little bird

Parasitic creatures with murderous and greedy offspring they may be, yet the prospect of no annual competition to hear the cuckoo's first call is a bleak one

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April 06, 2022
Small is beautiful
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Small is beautiful

Many aspects of farming are expanding-and not always in a good way. Jason Goodwin argues that it needs re-balancing, with a return to multiple small family farms, neighbourly cooperation and a bolstering of the local community

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April 06, 2022
The art of wallpaper
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The art of wallpaper

A new wallpaper company is unleashing the potential of digital technology to realise ranges of designs created by artists and designers

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April 06, 2022
Cool as cucumbers
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Cool as cucumbers

MY father was a meat-and-two-carbs kind of a guy, who was cursed in his rare liking of cucumbers, which reduced him to a chest bashing hiccuper.

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April 06, 2022
Hooray for clay
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Hooray for clay

The growing emphasis on handmade interiors is reviving interest in the tactile appeal of handmade ceramics

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April 06, 2022
AHOY THERE CITY SAILOR
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AHOY THERE CITY SAILOR

From Chelsea to the canals, Londoners are taking to the water in search of a more peaceful way of life. Jo Rodgers clambers aboard

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April 06, 2022
A garden of the mind
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A garden of the mind

Developed over 30 years by an art historian, this thought-provoking garden is filled with Classical references

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4 mins  |
April 06, 2022
The designer's room
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The designer's room

A distinctive wallpaper was the foundation for this drawing room of a London townhouse

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March 30, 2022
Something to crow about
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Something to crow about

Clever, companionable and mischievous, the crow or corvid family of birds has long loomed large in our lives and imaginations, as symbols of death and crop destroyers. But, contends Simon Lester, they’re not all black-hearted scoundrels

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March 30, 2022
Peer review
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Peer review

Two lords and one lady share their most enjoyable experiences abroad with Eleanor Doughty

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March 30, 2022
At home in the world
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At home in the world

British artist Aimee del Valle reveals why she loves French village life

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March 30, 2022
A right royal home
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A right royal home

Royal connections shaped the history of two country houses that are now on the market

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March 30, 2022
A hunting hall - Auckland Castle, Co Durham A property of The Auckland Project
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A hunting hall - Auckland Castle, Co Durham A property of The Auckland Project

After a major restoration programme and largescale archaeological investigation, this former palace of the Bishops of Durham has been re-opened to the public. John Goodall reports

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March 30, 2022
The girl with the golden touch
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The girl with the golden touch

Shunning the discrimination between canvas and textiles, painter and fabric designer Althea McNish was a onewoman colour explosion who made the impossible possible, finds Ian Collins

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March 30, 2022
‘I have finally moved into song'
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‘I have finally moved into song'

Best known as the creative force behind Dicky and Daffy, it was her son’s death that prompted Annie Tempest to learn ‘the grammar of the sculptor’s language’, discovers Ian Collins

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March 30, 2022
Under the Italian sun
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Under the Italian sun

Mary Miers considers how the country that fascinated J. M. W. Turner from youth shaped his artistic vision

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March 30, 2022