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I was struggling to see it. Maybe if I squinted? There was certainly an arresting glory about Thorpe Cloud that belied the knoll’s modest 287m (942ft). But did it, and the surrounding landscape, really look like Switzerland? “Maybe to someone who’s only seen photos…?” offered walking guide Austin Knott. “It does look like a beheaded Toblerone.” Ah, maybe that was it.

The Staffordshire town of Ilam has links to Switzerland and the Himalayas – our writer gets her Alpine fix

Manning Elliott Partnership can rightly call itself one of Cumbria's most influential architectural practices.

Escape to a snug pub with a fire in the Lake District, a vineyard cabin with a sauna in West Sussex or a four-poster bed at a 16th-century manor in North Yorkshire