Wiliam Wordsworth lived and wrote in Grasmere, in England’s Lake District, from 1799-1808.
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The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
An urban park as a slice of history.
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Turning a disused Victorian railway bridge into an elevated walkway and garden has the potential to rejuvenate a forgotten part of the city.
Mam Tor, Peak District.
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New director-general Helen McGrady is looking to cities for a ‘radical’ future at the National Trust.
The initials ‘ES’ on the parapets are those of Elizabeth Talbot, who built Hardwick Hall.
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Women played a far greater role in designing, commissioning and building country houses, gardens and parklands than was once imagined.
Different inside and out.
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It is 1529. Cardinal Wolsey leaves his palace at York Place, giving way to the triumphant Anne Boleyn, who holds court in the long gallery. But this York Place is not the princely residence of the Archbishops…