British DayDreams

  “Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,”— Emily Brontë, from “Moonlight, Summer Moonlight”  

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Manor Garden, Snowshill, England by Warwick Hunt

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Airlie Monument, Kirriemuir, Scotland

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Early morning misty walk through the golden gorse on the heath. Kinver Edge, Staffordshire

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Neist Point, Isle of Skye, Scotland by Aljaž Vidmar

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Gold posey ring inscribed "THINK WEL OF ME", English, 16th century

from The British Museum

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Glen Clunie, Scotland // Elliott Hepworth

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Annabelle Wallis as JANE SEYMOUR [1/2] The Tudors (2007)

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Landscape with Sheep (Oncoming Shower), 1858

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Peter Graham (Scottish, 1836 - 1921), Highland Cattle in a Mountainous Landscape, 1900

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Zak and Friend, Northern Fells, Lake District, Cumbria, England

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Cornish Coastal Path | George Hiles

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Stag, Scottish Highlands via Sarah Lonsdale

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The true love that has survived is mine for you and yours for me.

- Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson

The writer Vita Sackville-West always felt she belonged at her lavish ancestral home: Knole, in Kent. She was distraught that as a woman, she couldn’t inherit it. When she married the diplomat Harold Nicolson, though, they found another historic place in the weald of Kent: Sissinghurst Castle, a magnificent collection of Tudor buildings and a sprawling farm, all of which had long been neglected.

When Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West first saw Sissinghurst, it was a ruin. The sprawling farm in Kent had been for sale for two years, its moated Tudor buildings were mostly derelict and the garden was a rubbish dump. Their teenage son Nigel told them the property was ‘quite impossible’. Nonetheless, Vita went ahead and bought it in 1930 for £12,000. Built on the site of a medieval manor, it is known as Sissinghurst Castle although there is no castle - the name comes from the 18th century French prisoners of war, held there in cramped, smelly conditions, who sarcastically dubbed it ‘le chateau’.

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Devon, UK (by Michelle Cardwell)