In 2004, residents established the Repton Restoration Society “in an attempt to breathe new life into what used to be a busy, thriving little railroad town," a historical marker says. The old business ...

What makes a great pub can depend on what a customer is looking for. Some would prefer a large range of ales whilst others lean towards a watering hole that serves quality food. One pub in Derbyshire ...

Humphry Repton, who transformed great East Anglian landscapes, died 200 years ago today. Don Black explores a unique heritage. Sheringham Park on the north Norfolk coast remains what Humphry Repton ...

Every week we delve into the Country Life archive for a fascinating piece from times gone by. Our recent article on Sheringham Hall inspired us to go back to this 2018 piece about Humphry Repton, ...

When Judy Ballard opened a specialty foods store in a 1907 brick building in Repton, population 268, “Everybody said I’d never make it,” she says. After all, Repton is pretty much just a ...

The Repton site in Derbyshire was first excavated in the 1980s. This photo, from that excavation, shows bones uncovered in the charnel by Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle.

At Hatchlands Park in Surrey, Alec Cobbe lives with the likes of Guercino, Allori and Titian – a fitting collection for the Renaissance man he is. Writing on the ‘evanescent’ nature of gardens, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Landscape gardeners are readily found nowadays. They study on courses, give lectures and earn degrees. They ...

Exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of the ‘great improver’ who brought a taste of country life to the city Russell, Bedford, Tavistock and Fitzroy; the roll call of grand architectural squares ...

Sheringham Park on the north Norfolk coast remains what Humphry Repton described, among 400 gardens that drew his skills in the nation, as his 'most favourite work.' Not even Capability Brown, his ...