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The Petwood Hotel

Set in thirty acres of grounds, the Petwood Hotel is an extravagant display of neo-Tudor/Jacobean half-timbering, complete with splendid oak features.

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Glorious Galvin At The Athenaeum

If you didn’t know any better, you might mistake the Galvin brothers for a somewhat more sinister enterprise. It seems they have the Hyde Park Corner territory pretty well sown up. Galvin at Windows at the top floor of the London Hilton Park Lane and now Galvin At The Athenaeum

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Washingborough Hall Hotel

Just two miles or so from the city centre, the compact village of Washingborough, with its stone-built cottages clustered by the church and along the High Street, can boast Washingborough Hall, a late Georgian manor house, dating from the 1700s, and a Grade II Listed Building.

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The Athenaeum Hotel

The Athenaeum Hotel

There is something quintessentially British about a hatted doorman. Particularly a very tall one. And perhaps, the quick doff of Jim’s top hat, was the perfect introduction to my stay at The Athenaeum Hotel, a Mayfair landmark since 1840.

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More Secret Skye

Following on from his first Secret Sky piece, Terry Marsh opens the lid on more Secret Skye locations on the wonderful Isle of Sky.

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Secret Skye. Terry Marsh reveals hidden wonders of the Isle of Skye.

Terry Marsh, Our Scottish Island expert, reveals Secret Skye, his insider guide to the wonderful Isle of Skye. The most surprising thing about the Isle of Skye is that no matter how many times you visit, you never stop finding something you’d missed on previous visits. Here are a few off-the-beaten-track places I call secret […]

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