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On my mission to drink tea in many places on Exmoor, I visited Selworthy, an implausibly pretty village in the hills above the Vale of Porlock.( Read more... )

Wimpole Hall. Grand, isn't it? The earliest parts of the house date from the mid 17th century, but it was much enlarged and altered during the 18th & 19th centuries (in the process luring a great many men to their financial doom...)

The house as it is today, and its contents, were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge, Rudyard Kipling's daughter.

Captain George and Mrs Elsie Bambridge first rented Wimpole in 1938 and had bought it by 1942. The only surviving child of Rudyard Kipling, Elsie Bambridge was able to use the substantial royalties from her father’s books to refurbish the house.

The house was largely empty of contents, so they set out buying pictures and furniture to fill the house, bringing back many pieces that had once been owned by Wimpole’s previous families.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambridgeshire/wimpole-estate/history-of-wimpole-estate

( Many random pictures )