Features

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Beautiful Belmont

Named for its elevated site above panoramic views of the North Downs, Belmont House – literally ‘Beautiful Mountain’ – is an elegant Georgian home with an interesting history and much to offer visitors inside and out.

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Family-owned business celebrates 40 years

One of Kent’s best known food & drink businesses is celebrating its 40th birthday this June.

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Forged from Fire

Louise Tomlin went to meet the master metalworkers that create stunning structural steelwork.

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Beautiful Mistakes

Louise Tomlin chats with the man who rescues things that have been discarded by society and with skill, care and attention, they become treasured again – it’s a formula that can apply not only to broken chairs but to disadvantaged people too!

Hand-crafted finial globe lights installed at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons Hotel and Restaurant, Oxfordshire

Don’t blame it on the Moonlight

Our features writer Louise Tomlin talks to the owner and inventor of stone globe lights, Joanna Wallis

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Heavenly Heights

We climb up and inside the roof of Canterbury Cathedral with the carpenters appointed to work on a massive five-year conservation project.

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Oyster Festival in the frame

Whitstable’s perennially popular Oyster Festival is back – and so are the acclaimed Whitstable Portraits. We talk to artist Nicola Uldemolins.

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Christmas dinner for the birds

As you sit down to your meal, plate piled high with festive goodies, have a thought for the wild birds around you. What will they be eating for their Christmas dinner?

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Magic Circle

Nigel Slater on how to fashion a fantastic festive wreath

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A Hidden Gem Uncovered

Adrian wood explains how he painstakingly restored a historical ‘chocolate box’ grade II listed 16th century thatched cottage to provide the perfect 21st living accommodation