It is often called ‘Mini-Downton Abbey’ because it resembles the house featured in the TV series Downton Abbey. Sustainable materials and techniques were employed in its construction to reduce ...

You’ve barely crossed on to Dartmoor National Park when you turn off the road into the winding drive that takes you to the main building of the five-star Bovey Castle. That itself is vast ...

The building is vast, a mix between Downton Abbey and a grand mansion from an ... in 1991 when the hotel changed owners. In 2004, Bovey Castle was given its five-star status – and lodges ...

Downton Abbey fans were taken aback upon discovering that Jim Carter, famed for his role as Mr Carson in the ITV series, has a daughter who is also carving out a successful acting career.

‘I didn’t know you could actually buy a castle,’ says Simon Hunt, sitting in the stone-walled kitchen nook of his 16th-century Scottish pile with wife Stef Burgon. ‘I thought they were ...

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“Always happy to see you with a warm greeting and a smile on their face the food is amazing and the little cafe has some good views of the Whitby Abby [Abbey].” One user was pleased with their ...

Tuppence, 38, who played Lucy in the Downton Abbey movies, talked about how she developed the disorder when she was 12 years old. She revealed that she suffers from a fear of illness and vomiting ...

The terrorist accused by President Trump of plotting the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 US service members and 168 Afghans in August 2021 was not one of the top planners of the attack but will ...

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One of the most well-known examples is Mont-Saint-Michel. It is an abbey/castle off the shore of Normandy, France. It contains so much history that dates back to over a thousand years ago, and it is ...