‘I worked 11-hour days as a London trader – running Middleton Castle is harder’
Growing up, Tom Barclay kept quiet about his family home of Middleton Castle, just outside King’s Lynn. “I never really talked...
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‘We were sinking in debt, then my brother had a brainwave’
The Shephards’ is a professional model of country house rental. They themselves do not host – for good reason, says...
‘We restored our rotting Cornish estate – but refused to involve the National Trust’
Set in over 7,500 acres of Cornish countryside, the Boconnoc Estate has hosted duelling dukes, prime ministers and even King Charles...
‘I couldn’t avoid inheriting our 1,900-acre country estate – even if I wanted to’
“I worked in film for a long time,” says Lord Hinchingbrooke when asked whether he intended to become a social...
‘People were furious when I started charging to visit my Devon village’
On the north Devon coast there’s a stunningly beautiful, authentic village frozen in time. But while England is not short...
‘There are huge political issues involved with living here’
The approach to the Welbeck estate is detectably ducal. After a row of almshouses, an old hermitage and a community...
‘It’s totally nuts that the eldest son inherits the estate – so we scrapped the rules on our 60-room country house’
For 200 years, Cambo House, near St Andrews in Fife, had passed neatly from father to son down the Erskine...
Famed for its boarding school but its history goes deeper
For the last century, it has been a world famous boarding school, but Stowe House in Buckingham was once home...
‘We left London for our 230-year-old family estate during lockdown – and never looked back’
Boughton House has been the English home of the Duke of Buccleuch since 1790, and is now one of the...
Forget Champagne – invest in these English wines for the biggest returns
England’s wine industry is ageing like a fine Sussex red. Blind tastings have proved that homegrown vintages punch well above...
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