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...These buyers also want a pleasant city centre location. For Scarisbrick, this element is crucial to central London’s continued appeal....
...I’ll emerge from a clump of trees, and the spires of Christ Church in Hampstead and St Michael’s in Highgate will seem to have swapped places....
...Lawyers are also thwarting the Church’s efforts to promote social housing on its land: charities must maximise economic returns. “There are different opinions,” Welby says....
...In St Andrews, Fife, the botanic garden’s site is relatively new....
...Robert Crawford, who teaches literature at St Andrews University and is a fine poet (his “Anstruther”, about the Fife fishing village in which I grew up, deftly captures the light and dark of that place)...
...At the southern tip of Harris, we visited the quietly impressive St Clement’s church, dating from the 15th century....
...“I’ve worked for years to get these people to trust me, to want to do business with me.”...
...Nigel Andrews, FT film critic …………………………………………………………….....
...From Church Stretton’s library on Church Road, go up Burway Road, past the Victorian holiday homes that gave the town its nickname of “Little Switzerland”, and take the footpath into Carding Mill Valley....
...This usually makes for an intriguing hike, because those feet in ancient times did not walk on England’s green and pleasant land: they walked here. This is the place....
...tracts of land across the island....
...The cost of maintaining the estate, points out Andrew Brown, secretary of the Church Commissioners, is the flipside to the argument that the Church of England is unfairly favoured by its inheritance....
...Richardson takes me on a stroll past St Nicholas church, with a skull and crossbones over the entrance, where Sir Francis Drake used to pray, and then to a patch of land, smothered by weeds, where a previous...
...The church fabric bears the scars....
...It currently runs three woodland burial sites, one in Wrabness, Essex, another near Guildford and a third in Worcester, and has a further site opening near Bury St Edmunds....
...This is no jollity in Oxford Street, but the Heart of Darkness in England’s green and pleasant land....
...Andrew Meier, a former correspondent for Time Europe, now lives in New York....
...“I don’t trust anybody,” she said, sounding disgusted. “I’m so sick of the negative campaigning. They say whatever they say just to get elected.”...
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