Surrey
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An admiral built it, his wife said, at the expense of his country’s enemies; Robert Adam made his English debut inside; and Chopin’s own piano stands in the saloon. Here is the story of Hatchlands Park and how to visit.
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A chalk spring, a dam built in 1662 and a Victorian novelist who gave it a royal drowning: the story of Surrey’s Silent Pool, and how to visit it for free.
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Twelve monks from France, a river that kept flooding and a king who stayed for Holy Week: the story of Britain’s first Cistercian abbey, now a free ruin beside the River Wey near Farnham.
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A doctor who planted trees the way a painter uses a brush, a wartime glade nicknamed after Hitler and a Surrey valley that blazes every October. Here is the story of Winkworth Arboretum and how to visit.
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A vast natural bowl gouged into the Surrey Hills, said to be where the Devil scooped up earth to hurl at Thor. A real murder happened on its rim in 1786, and Conan Doyle lived just over the ridge while writing Sherlock Holmes’s most famous case.