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A Place Like No Other: the 12th-century house that set a writer’s staggering second wind in motion

Lucy M. Boston moved to the Manor at Hemingford Grey when she was in her 40s, a single mother with a job as a war nurse behind her. Soon, she found this mesmerising medieval house – the oldest continually inhabited in the country – working its magic on her. Here, her great-nephew and Inigo’s co-founder reflects on the creative legacy she left there

words
Albert Hill
photography
Mark Anthony Fox
A Place Like No Other: the 12th-century house that set a writer’s staggering second wind in motion

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