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CBA Weekend: Lanhydrock;Truro’s Architecture, and Historic Landscape Characterisation in Cornwall
Unfortunately, after my first night had good HDSPA reception enabling me to use my mobile broadband, subsequent nights (in Newquay and Whiddon Down) have only managed a ‘good’ GPRS, which is only useful for emails and slow browsing, so I … Continue reading
Wrest Park
I’d been looking for somewhere to meet up with my sister & brother-in-law that was roughly equidistant (they live in the Fens, we live in Surrey) and hit upon Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. It’s a Grade 1 listed French-style C18 … Continue reading
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Horace Walpole & Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Britain, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge; he went on the Grand Tour with Thomas Gray the poet, but had a disagreement and parted … Continue reading
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