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Spectacular Scottish castles and estates for sale - Country Life
WEBJun 3, 2024 · Highlands — £7,500,000. A 1,000-acre estate with a red stone castle at its heart. Woodland and pasture are part of the landscape, with deer stalking and scope for a driven shoot. The agents also cite the opportunity to develop further. For sale with Goldsmith & Co.
Scotland property for sale - Country Life
WEBWhether it’s a farmhouse in the Scottish Borders, an amazing Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh, or a cottage on the stunning west coast, Scotland has a brilliantly varied selection of property for sale. Prices are lower than England – you can buy a castle for the price of a semi-detached three bedroom home in Surrey – and the quality of ...
Property for sale in the Cotswolds - Country Life
WEBCotswolds property for sale. Straddling Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire, this beautiful part of the heart of England boasts rolling hills and peaceful, winding rivers. Parts of it – particularly in Oxfordshire – are close enough to London to be commutable, but always far enough away to feel ...
A tour of Broughton Hall, home of the Tempests for 1,000 years …
WEBDec 2, 2022 · Broughton Hall is the childhood home of Country Life's cartoonist Annie Tempest, whose family have lived here for 1,000 years. Steven Desmond took a look at this palatial house and gardens; photographs by Val Corbett.
A private island in Scotland for sale with 660 acres, ancient ruins …
WEBJul 24, 2019 · This beautiful island of 660 acres — which is for sale through Strutt & Parker with a £1.4m price tag — has been used by people for thousands of years. It’s been a Bronze Age settlement, a medieval monastery, a burial ground for the Scots who were slain 750 years ago at the Battle of Largs, a 17th century hermit’s retreat, a smugglers’ hideout and a D-Day training ground.
Who owns Britain: Top ten aristocratic UK landowners
WEBCountry Life November 11, 2010. Prince Charles. 1. Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry. 240,000 acres. Richard Buccleuch, the 10th Duke. of Buccleuch & Queensberry, owns four major estates: Queensberry-complete with magical pink sandstone Drumlanrig Castle Langholm in Dumfriesshire, Bowhill in Selkirkshire, …
Alan Titchmarsh: A foolproof guide to growing wisteria
WEBJun 22, 2023 · Feeding your wisteria with a generous helping of rose fertiliser (rich in flower-promoting potassium and magnesium) every March will help to promote regular flowering and healthy growth. If your wisteria has been pruned and fed and grown on a sunny wall and still refuses to flower after three or four years, give it up as a bad job, haul it out ...
Houses for sale in Yorkshire - Country Life
WEBThe grand country house of the Yorkshire turkey magnate who took on Bernard Matthews comes up for sale. Knapton Hall is a magnificent country house, located in the Derwent Valley that offers just under 50 acres of superb grounds and a church with Norman origins. The latest Houses for sale in Yorkshire articles, galleries and videos from Country ...
Urchfont Manor, Wiltshire: From local council facility to 'inspired ...
WEBJun 12, 2021 · The seasonality of the kitchen garden is balanced at one end by the dry gravel garden where domes of Euphorbia wulfenii provide constant shape — and, in spring and early summer, many weeks of distinctive lime-green, flourishing alongside box balls and iris.The planting here and in nearby borders demonstrates Miss Jones’s meticulous approach (which manifests itself in a readiness to dig up ...