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Owning a country pile isn’t all champagne and Saltburn-style debauchery, finds our writer on a tour of Northamptonshire
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Owning a country pile isn’t all champagne and Saltburn-style debauchery, finds our writer on a tour of Northamptonshire
A few weeks ago, astronomers announced that in 2022 something truly spectacular is to occur: a new star will appear in the heavens. It will be the first such event visible with the naked eye for over 400 years. Created by the collision of two relatively dim stars, the resultant explosion is known as a “boom star.”
The National Trust was founded in order to preserve the threatened landscapes, coastline and historic buildings of Britain, and it has done a magnificent job doing all three.
When the National Trust took over Canons Ashby in 1981, the Tudor country house in gently rolling Northamptonshire countryside was a wreck, its gardens run wild. It was hard to imagine on this brisk spring day with volunteers tending the tulip beds and topiary in the immaculate gardens, and others ready to fill in the story of the ironstone house and its dark panelled rooms gathered tightly round a tall courtyard.
Crispy winter weather is ideal for a big walk out admiring the nature.