My childhood was spent making dens in the hidden corners of the landscaped gardens of a grand country estate in the Lake District.
I wandered woods full of baby pheasants being fattened up for the shoot.
I had lakes to paddle in and a dinghy that we bumped down the path to a private beach.
First in Yorkshire, then in Bedford, then on Graythwaite Estate, in Cumbria in the Lake District.
For centuries, it was not uncommon for the offer of a job in the English countryside to include accommodation.
Persons:
—, didn’t
Locations:
Lake, England, Yorkshire, Bedford, Cumbria, Graythwaite