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Leisure and golfing feast

One of those much-visited jewels in the crown of historic country properties is Hever Castle in a corner of west Kent. It is best known as the home of...

in Golf - on 4/2/21

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Hats off to Mark

Like all sports, racing is facing up to big changes thanks to Coronavirus. One of National Hunt’s best-loved courses is preparing for an extra change....

in People - on 29/8/20

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Spitfires grounded

Cricket is our summer game; just not this summer. The frustration is most apparent at county level, where all 18 clubs are without income, yet having to...

in Cricket - on 6/7/20

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Oldest school ties

It is said that St Augustine first founded a school here in 597AD and it became the King’s School in 1541 when it was re-founded by Royal Charter under...

in Cricket - on 27/3/20

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National Trust Chartwell

“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted”. That’s what Sir Winston Churchill said about his family home near Westerham in Kent, which has been...

in Public Places - on 22/1/20

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Spice of life at Saffrons

This delightful multi sports venue on the south coast was, and still is, part of the Duke of Devonshire’s estate, where in Victorian times the most expensive...

in Football - on 20/7/19

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Holmewood House School

This non-selective boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3-13, set in thirty-two delightfully green acres on the southern fringe of Kent’s...

in People - on 17/6/19

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A Place in history ...

Cricket has been played ‘in the back garden’ of one of England’s foremost stately homes for nearly 300 years. Neville Johnson paid a mid-winter...

in Cricket - on 18/3/19

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300 glorious acres ...

Looking after the vast grounds at one of the country’s foremost independent schools for girls is a truly challenging task. Neville Johnson went there...

in Schools & Colleges - on 15/2/19

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Lord’s treasure Hunt

Exclusive Interview - It’s mid-September. The curtain is about to fall on the 2018 cricket season. One name in the game is about to leave perhaps its...

in Cricket - on 29/10/18

Mid-summer Trimming

Shooting Daggers upwards

Only one football ground in the whole country has its nets on display at the National Football Museum. Neville Johnson looks at the relatively short history...

in Football - on 11/10/18

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Downland masterpiece

We visit a classic course where Surrey’s chalky hills offer views of southern England countryside and the London skyline has been sensitively modernised,...

in Golf - on 21/9/18

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Golden age innings

A Sussex country estate mentioned in the Domesday Book a thousand years ago, and world famous for its Capability Brown gardens, has an indelible and lasting...

in Cricket - on 3/8/18

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The shamrock ‘invader'

England’s one-day cricket captain is an Irishman, but Eoin Morgan is not the only one from the Republic making a mark in the game. Neville Johnson went...

in Cricket - on 18/5/18

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Knole Park Golf Club

Henry VIII probably, and the Beatles definitely, ‘walked the course’ or at least part of what is regarded as one of England’s best golf course settings....

in Golf - on 8/4/18

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Downland hideaway

Once the site of one of the country’s first holiday camps, this delightful course in the heart of the North Downs is set for a fresh beginning. Neville...

in Golf - on 16/2/18

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No sign of water ...

There is a golf club like no other that has London’s 21st century skyline as a backdrop. It was the golfing ‘birthplace’ of one of this country’s...

in Golf - on 29/11/17

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Basingstoke Boy

Once a county outground and with redevelopment plans to help get May’s Bounty back on the Hampshire fixture list, cricket owes it a debt of gratitude....

in Cricket - on 13/10/17

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'Old school’ no longer!

A few years ago, the school report might have read: superb academic record and at the forefront of classroom innovation, yet a bit of an under achiever...

in Football - on 14/7/17

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Lord’s second chamber

First class outground cricket may be dwindling, but Middlesex is one county where there will always be a need. Neville Johnson went pre-season to the outer...

in Cricket - on 2/6/17


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