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Excursion to Ashridge Estate

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June 13th 2015
We didn’t remember the last time we had visited Ashridge Estate – the vast countryside estate, managed by the National Trust on the northwest outskirts of London – but our happy memories brought us back again on Friday, 15 May. By morning on 15 May, it had stopped raining in London – the grey gloomy clouds had disappeared but a blue sky had appeared. We took the train from Euston and got ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more