Ashdown House

  As I entered Bath Abbey last week, I noticed a plaque high on the porch wall that mentioned the name Craven - twice! I had known that memb...

  You don’t hear much about the 5 th Baron Craven. Sandwiched between Fulwar the 4 th Baron, a supreme sportsman, and William, the 6 th B...

Over the years I've done a number of blog posts about Ashdown village, the old farmhouse and the stunning Victorian stables. (You can fi...

It's hard to believe that it's seven years since I wrote any new posts on this Ashdown House blog. In the meantime, I've written...

Curses. They’re rather fun in fiction. As someone who has written a book featuring a cursed pearl, I’m the first to admit that I like the...

Aficionados of Ashdown House and William Craven will already know that he was a man of wide-ranging interests. I had not previously realis...

The first bluebells are starting to come out in the Ashdown woods. In a week, or perhaps two, there will be a carpet of blue beneath the t...