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...It is the only habitable and rentable castle on Loch Ness, and offers activities including fishing, falconry and archery in the 500 acres of gardens, woodland and wildflower meadows....
...Who Strutt & Parker Manor house, Ickleton, £5mn Where Near Ickleton village on the Essex-Cambridgeshire border....
...The grounds include a walled garden, meadow, lake, tennis court and moat — plus a second world war air-raid shelter....
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...Sam Trounson of Strutt & Parker has had no sales in the Slad Valley this year and only a handful in the four other valleys. “It’s been a very slow start,” he says....
...It features wild-flower meadows and bluebell woods. Who Knight Frank Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...She’s a beauty, set surely to join the pantheon of stellar puppet animals along with Joey, the equine star of War Horse, and Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger holding the stage in Life of Pi (about to open...
...Doug Parker, American Airlines chief executive, joined union leaders on Wednesday in calling on Congressional leaders and Mr Meadows to extend an aid package to support airline payrolls through to the end...
...A dense wildflower meadow has grown up around and over the plates so that barely three or four feet of them are visible above the grass....
...Or maybe I’d just remain in the hotel, watching the comings and goings on Parker’s Piece....
...In John Constable’s moody landscape “Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows” (1831), a farmer drives his cart through the shallows of the river Nadder, bordered by meadows and woodland....
...“It’s not uncommon for those visiting to end up searching for a house locally,” says Harriet White of Strutt & Parker in Salisbury who is selling the dolls’ house perfect Manor House at Cholderton, handy...
...He worked for many years in the rare manuscripts department of Sotheby’s, and since 2000 has presided over the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge....
...“What happened in these meadows eight centuries ago is as relevant today as it was then and that relevance extends far beyond Britain,” he said....
...Anatomy of a Soldier, by Harry Parker, Faber, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP£25.95 Former British army captain Harry Parker’s semi-autobiographical novel about a soldier who loses both legs is a compelling addition...
...His 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon was rated 90 points by eminent wine critic Robert Parker....
...Ireland too has quietened, reducing the currency of Donagh’s spooky H-Block painting “Long Meadow”, and at the same time the sideburned strikers marching across the Duvet Brothers’ video “Blue Monday” are...
...I had put the question to Camilla, then Camilla Parker Bowles. There is still some rough grass at Highgrove and there may well be a wire perimeter fence....
...The gallery will offer a restaurant, a meadow garden created by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf and also a six-room guest house in the 18th-century farmhouse....
...The meadow always has been a managed environment: hay must be harvested and rabbits controlled....
...It is on sale for £590,000 through Strutt & Parker. Castle Meadow has six bedrooms and is much closer to Ludlow’s centre but does not have substantial grounds either....
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor. To comment on this article, please e-mail magazineletters@ft.com...
...Meadows and parkland provide grazing for beef cattle. The opportunity to make money was crucial. He employs three people to manage the farm, which was always run as a business....
...Down in the snowy meadow, the horses stand still in huddles, like bushes in their dark winter coats, and the snow creaks like unoiled hinges....
...Who: Strutt and Parker Banchory, www.struttandparker.com, tel: +44 (0)1330 826 800...
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