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Richard Heathcote/Getty Images With an average property price of £500,310, London is the most expensive place in England to buy a house, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). However, the counties and towns around the capital also boast some mind-boggling property prices.  According to Zoopla, Surrey is home to four of the 12 most expensive towns outside of the capital, while locations in Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire also feature.�...

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: American-born Koo Stark is said to have rejected a then huge £500,000 to write her memoirs in the 1980s. Now, however, she has severe financial problems.

Get stuck into these new books by Sussex authors, from Egan Hughes' haunted house thriller to Julian Roup's love letter to Ashdown Forest

Like many visitors to a new place, you may want to negotiate with a map. The first one to pop to mind may be Shepard’s beautifully hand-drawn Hundred Acre Wood, with treehouses, rivers, and woods. I am often asked if these two places are one and the same. Can Shepard’s map be used as a guide to Ashdown Forest? Though charming, that map is fictional but based on real places in the landscape – some of which we can visit today. Christopher Robin’s House The first stories in Winnie-the-Pooh...

Choose between either Wild Boar Wood Campsite in West Sussex or Beech Estate Campsite in East Sussex to get the Pegs & Pitches Camping experience.  Facilities include hot water bucket showers, eco-toilets or compost toilets and campfires. Everything is off-grid, so any power is minimal and comes from renewable resources such as solar lamps. You can choose between bell tents for something more akin to Glamping if you need a comfy bed to sleep on at night or if your really looking for an aut...

Visit the Telegraphs Pub of the Year 2020, plus the best pubs for food, families and dogs Lets celebrate our great pubs. Here we reveal our readers favourites, plus Sawdays top spots of 2020 Our readers favourite pubs for food, families and dogs Last spring, we were gearing up to announce the second Telegraph Pub of the Year, the Cartford Inn in Lancashire. In association with Sawday’s travel guides, we had put the call out for readers’ recommendations at the beginning of February; we keyed...

Mark Munroe-Preston It comes from Uckfield artist Mark Munroe-Preston. Mark said: “The exhibition will feature a selection of my latest treescapes, which, as the name suggests, depict a variety of incredible trees. These pieces are predominately set in the Sussex countryside surrounding Lewes, from the South Downs to the Ashdown Forest. It is my hope that this work will present familiar scenes from the area in a new and interesting way. “The artworks are presented as prints on sheets of br...

© Getty Images/iStockphoto “I’ve lit the hot tub, and your bones are in the fridge” is an unusual welcome, says Felicity Cloake in The Sunday Times. But then Nicola Mills “isn’t running your average campsite”. Each of the four yurts at Mrs Mills’ Yurts dog-friendly glamping site in Gloucestershire is “bigger than my living room”. Between that and sleeping in a normal tent, “I know which one I’d prefer to share with my bed-hogging cairn terrier, Wilf”.  The yurts have ...

Go mountain biking in the forest, follow woodland trails, or play Pooh sticks from the actual bridge – then cosy up in a country hotel

Afternoon Tea at Amberley Castle - Credit: Amberley Castle  Looking for somewhere to eat and drink in the great outdoors? We’ve rounded up a selection of the county’s most picturesque spots. 1. Amberley Castle, near Arundel Steeped in 900 years of history, Amberley Castle is like something out of a fairytale. Behind those medieval walls lies 12 acres of formal gardens with rose-covered arches, topiary, perennial borders and Koi carp ponds.   The food: Those wanting to dine al fresco ca...