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A BARN conversion with a three-bedroom house and adjoining two-bedroom annexe, with lots extending to about 42.89 acres is on the market for £1.3…

THIS modern family home in Kendal could be yours for £500.000.

THIS well presented detached property could be yours for £500,000.

A twisted hornbeam trunk in Epping Forest. Photograph: Colin Boulter People rave about oaks and beeches, but as lockdowns restricted our outings to walks in the woods near our home, I became fascinated with a more eccentric species: the hornbeam. While most tree trunks stick unimaginatively to growing vertically, hornbeams in Epping Forest adopt all kinds of exuberant angles: 45 degrees to the forest floor is not unusual; some – still green and growing – lie prostrate on the ground or...