Inheritance tax thresholds, rates and how it works in 2024
Seven really is the magic number when it comes to inheritance tax. Seven years is the length of time for any...
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‘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...
Want a dream home abroad? Here’s what you could actually afford
A shoebox in Mayfair, a castle in Scotland or an island in the Pacific – browsing property websites to see...
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...
‘The house was a complete wreck when we moved in – half the ceilings had fallen down’
In the summer of 1935, the poet TS Eliot stumbled upon Burnt Norton, a charming manor house near Chipping Campden...
