Eleanor Doughty

1 week ago | thefield.co.uk | Eleanor Doughty

British-trained gundogs are growing in popularity with sportsmen around the globe but what is it about our home-bred dogs that appeals so much asks Eleanor Doughty? TAGS: gundog puppiesgundogs The first time I catch up with Charlie Thorburn, the gundog trainer to the 1%, he has just joined the M6 Toll and has been awake for a long time.

1 week ago | discoverbritain.com | Eleanor Doughty

The tale of Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh’s iconic novel about the English aristocracy, is one as old as time. Middle-class boy meets charming aristocrat, falls in love… to say any more would spoil it. But Brideshead is more than just a story about Charles Ryder. It is a story of a house, Brideshead Castle. Today, Brideshead is best associated with one house: Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, home of the Howard family for over 300 years.

1 week ago | msn.com | Eleanor Doughty

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1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Eleanor Doughty

There will always be more to do on an estate like Charlton - as soon as he finishes one property, he's on to the next. Alongside the property portfolio, there's an arable and livestock farm to handle, a shoot, a fishing syndicate, and now both a business park using old estate buildings, and a secure dog field, bringing new audiences on to the estate, all part of his plan to transform it into its new era.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Eleanor Doughty

Great Estates: 'Home of Devon' Powderham Castle is embracing its history of bringing people togetherCharlie Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon, has been having a clear-out. At his home, Powderham Castle near Exeter, "up in the attics and roofs there's what we refer to as the 'wild archives'," he says, "just a bunch of stuff that we never really get to". Now the wild archives are no more.