Several of Jane Austin’s novels are set in the Georgian City of Bath during the elegance of the Regency period. But you will find the real Jane Austen, not in Bath, but in her home village of Chawton, Hampshire.
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An English Cottage Garden in midsummer is a place to bring delight and find peace and joy in the ‘still dews of quietness’ of a garden. In the words of Gertrude Jekyll – a place ‘to call home over-wearied spirits‘. Join me in our garden.
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This is the story of our local Angmering Park estate, here on the South Downs, coming back to life – still very much farmland, but with a rapid increase in wildlife and biodiversity. And the wild grey partridges that in 2002 had dwindled to 5 pairs are beginning to return again along with much of the farm’s traditional wildlife.
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John Clare was far from being just a simple country poet. This recently published collection of his work shows him as both naturalist and nature writer, as well as unparalleled poet. Following Clare through this book brings back memories of being young again out exploring the countryside of my native Berkshire.
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A Listening Heart 