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A world worth waiting for
Travel 2022
Blessed are the cheesemakers
Downton: plaster of paradise..

The women shaping a new countryside

Throughout history, formidable women such as Cleopatra and Lady Eve Balfour did much to nurture the land. Camilla Akers-Douglas talks to four present-day matriarchs who are helping to boost the rural economy in very different ways

8 mins

Plaster of paradise

Recent restoration and revival offers the perfect opportunity for a reappraisal of this house and its magnificent plasterwork interiors.

8 mins

Everybody say cheese

The millennia-long tradition of cheesemaking in Britain and Ireland, having weathered many storms, is as vigorous as ever thanks to the great cheese renaissance. Ned Palmer takes a dairy-driven tour

9 mins

Not such a Scilly idea

Beloved by The Prince of Wales, who shares his Scottish home with them, and thriving on Tresco and Arran–where they supposedly arrived in a laundry basket–red squirrels have a particular penchant for island life

7 mins

The designer's room

Interior designer Sarah Fortescue has transformed the drawing room of a house on her family’s Cornish estate with colour and pattern

1 min

Under the Tuscan sun

In contrast with the arid landscape of the Val d’Orcia, the exuberant gardens created by Cecil Pinsent for the writer Iris Origo at La Foce, Tuscany, Italy, are all the more astonishing

6 mins

Over the Moon

A Tintin drawing makes a record in Paris and a not-too frightening Bacon will be at the Royal Academy

5 mins

Through the looking glass

On a bleak January day, John Lewis-Stempel boards a train from London to Herefordshire and admires the wealth of wildlife on view through the carriage window

4 mins

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