Countryside campaigners after facing a fresh fight with developers to prevent a housing estate being built next to a historic manor that inspired Thomas Hardy. Objectors including Historic England and the Hardy Society thought they had stopped plans for 120 homes on land close to Wolfeton House, which the Victorian author visited frequently. Last year … Read more
As a judge on The Great British Bake Off, Prue Leith is all-too-aware of the vital importance of timing. And it’s not just in the kitchen where she’s achieved success. I hear the amiable chef has managed to cash in on the country house price boom during the pandemic by selling her rural retreat for … Read more
The Queen is seeking a new neighbour to rent Flitcham Hall, a six-bedroom manor house on her 20,000-acre Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Less than two miles from Sandringham House, it will be available from next spring for £3,750 a month – but tenants aren’t allowed to have any cats. The ban, which was first introduced in … Read more
It’s the Great British Sell-Off – Prue Leith has put her Cotswolds manor house on the market for £10 million. The celebrity chef has lived at Chastleton Glebe, Gloucestershire, since 1972, and she previously wanted to keep the honey-coloured Georgian building in the family. But the property – complete with its own lake, panoramic views … Read more
‘THAT’S where I know him from!’ Fans of The Haunting Of Bly Manor cotton on that Uncle Henry is ‘the kid from E.T.’ By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 10:25 BST, 20 October 2020 | Updated: 10:25 BST, 20 October 2020 Those who watched The Haunting Of Hill House two years ago were beside themselves … Read more
Everywhere I look, I interrupt a wedding planning meeting. I’ve lost my partner and three-year-old daughter in The Manor House hotel in Wiltshire shortly after arriving and in every room and corridor on the ground floor I search I discover a beaming couple having a nuptials pow-wow with hotel staff. I can’t blame them. For … Read more
An Inspector calls… at Billesley Manor Hotel near Stratford-upon-Avon and says the Bard would have liked the cosy dining room – but he doubts the £5.6m refurb included his bedroom Shakespeare is said to have written As You Like It in what is now the hotel’s As You Like It lounge The Inspector says the … Read more
It is the supernatural horror series which has left viewers too frightened to sleep. But fans of new Netflix sensation, The Haunting of Bly Manor have been left rolling in the aisles after realising ‘creepy’ little girl Flora is also the voice of kids TV show, Peppa Pig. The drama, loosely based on Henry James’ 1898 … Read more
Just two nights after Netflix dropped the supernatural horror drama series The Haunting Of Bly Manor on Friday, some viewers are already having trouble sleeping. After binge-watching the series, loosely based on Henry James’ 1898 novella The Turn Of The Screw, Twitter users vented about recovering from the chilling scenes. The new nine-episodes, which are the second installment … Read more
Netflix dropped another chilling trailer for the supernatural horror drama series The Haunting Of Bly Manor, which is the second installment in the Haunting anthology. While the upcoming new nine-episodes come on the heels of Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting Of Hill House, with some of the same cast members and creative team returning, the stories of … Read more