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Austwick News
Church news: With the government’s national ‘Step’ Regulations progressively enabling more activities to restart, we are now gradually reintroducing services of worship in our churches. Initially these are combined services to include everyone in the parishes of Clapham, Keasden, Austwick and Eldroth. Sunday May 9 11am Keasden. Ascension Day Thursday May 13, 10.30am Austwick Sunday May 16, 11am Clapham. Sunday June 27, 7pm Lambing Service at Keasden New Burial Ground. A celebration of lambing and of the beautiful new burial ground being created next to Keasden Church.
The River Darent at Eynsford, Kent. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
The Nest Collective, which stages folk music events in green spaces, is running six nature walks along chalk streams in southern England in June. Each walk is led by the collective’s founder, Sam Lee, who is a Mercury prize-nominated folk singer, and an “eco pioneer” special guest. For example, the walk along the Rivers Cray, Darent and Thames is with biologist Dr Amy-Jane Beer. The other locations are along the Chess, Stour, Colne, Kennet, Mimram and Beane; all start and end at a railway station a short distance from London. The three- to five-mile meanders include several stops for songs and talks. The collective is also taking walkers and singers on a turtle dove pilgrimage in Sussex (10-13 June) and a salmon pilgrimage in the Cairngorms (17-20 June).
The 10 beautiful islands every Briton should visit
Our UK experts profile 10 beautiful islands that should be on your travel radar
13 May 2021 • 1:46pm My top spot on Anglesey is Llanddwyn Bay in the south, where miles of sand frames the mouth of the Menai Strait and the floating mountains of Snowdonia
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From the heights of Scotland to the southern edges of England, Britain s coastline is dotted with incredible isles. So hoist the mainsail (or catch the next ferry) – every Briton should have these spots in their sights:
1. Skye
Clattering on to the deck of the Skye ferry in the Arctic half-light of a January blizzard, I felt as if we were crossing to a land invented by Tolkien. I first went to Skye as a teenager to climb mountains. Back then the island felt as remote as Spitsbergen. It still feels very Lord of the Rings. Fangs of old grey rock loom 3,000ft above silent lochs and hobbity crofts, while paths climb in riddles to the clouds. These days the ferry
THE lavish contents of one of Britain s most beautiful stately homes are being auctioned off in a £1m everything-must-go sale run by a Dorchester auction house. Wormington Grange has been owned since the 1970s by John Evetts, the grandson of Lord Ismay, Winston Churchill s chief military strategist during World War Two. Mr Evetts has sold the neoclassical Cotswolds mansion for a multi-million pounds sum as he is downsizing to a smaller property in the area. The sale features over 1,000 items ranging in value from £50 kitchen glasses to £100,000 works of art. Auctioneers Duke s of Dorchester say it features the most important collection of country house furniture to emerge on the market for decades.