Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the hamlet of Toys Hill in Kent acquired its well in 1898, it was not a charming rural feature but a ...

A captivating grade-II listed country home once owned by the Queen Mother's aunt has gone on the market for £3.5million - complete with lavish gardens designed by National Trust co-founder Octavia ...

Distance 6 miles (9.7km) Classification Moderate Duration 3 hours Begins Toys Hill car park, Chart Lane OS grid reference TQ470517 Walk in a nutshell A loosely triangular walk from Toys Hill exploring ...

Sophie Campbell tries a new walking trail set up for the centenary of the National Trust co-founder Octavia Hill. By Sophie Campbell 01 May 2012 • 11:23pm It was in the ladies' loos at Chartwell that ...

Octavia Hill believed that everyone should have access to outdoor areas for recreation A "green space" is being created to commemorate Wisbech-born Octavia Hill, a Victorian social reformer and ...

Octavia Hill championed the 'environment' at the height of the industrial revolution when our towns and cities were expanding rapidly. For her the environment was the link between where we live and ...

A few years ago I made a documentary called Age of the Do-Gooders to reclaim that pejorative term and reappraise the reputations of some of the great reformers of the Victorian age. Octavia Hill was ...

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A "green space" is being created to commemorate Wisbech-born Octavia Hill, a Victorian social reformer and co-founder of the National Trust. The Octavia Hill Centenary Green is planned for a plot of ...