Category: Northumberland
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A visit to Kirkharle – where Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown began
So, the above might not be the picture of a garden you’re expecting from the birthplace of the man who has been called the ‘Shakespeare of Gardening’ but the house that Lancelot Brown was born in was once situated where this car park now stands. It’s at Kirkharle Hall in Northumberland which was owned by…
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Howick Hall Gardens, Northumberland
There’s nothing I like better than a well-made cup of tea – well, actually there are quite a lot of things if I’m honest, but it’s still exciting to have a cup of Earl Grey tea in the family home of Earl Grey himself, Howick Hall. It was the poshest tea room I’ve been in.…