VOL. LXXIX.—MAY, 1897.—No. CCCCLXXV. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. THE most conspicuous object in the village is the tavern, a long, low building, once painted red, but now ...

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In the chill of a 12th-century English church, a 30-something with a liquid baritone and a Harry Potter-ish gaze sang a medieval lament. We gathered tentatively around him, 23 near-strangers who had ...

Devon, England, has a cinema room, a heated outdoor pool, 43 acres of tranquil rolling grounds and a history stretching back to the Middle Ages. Widworthy Barton lies in Widworthy village, near ...

Nestled between Lancashire’s stand-out beauty, the Forest of Bowland, and the breathtaking vistas of the Yorkshire Dales, the serene, postcard-perfect village of Clapham seems far removed from the ...

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SWAFFHAM PRIOR, England, Dec 6 (Reuters) - In a quiet field in eastern England a vast heat pump generates enough warmth to supply houses throughout a historic village, a pilot project testing ways to ...

Holidaymakers, including American vice-presidents, are drawn to rural Britain partly because it seems to change so little. The villages are thatched and quaint. The farm shops, if not their prices, ...

The Cotswold region, an 800-square-mile chunk of England two hours northwest of London, is crisscrossed with hedgerows, dotted with storybook villages and sprinkled with sheep. Cotswold villages, such ...

When disease forecasts predicted a surge of COVID-19 cases across Northern New England, some expected the pandemic would write the final chapter for the region’s most rural communities. Rural ...