The Thames Path by Leigh Hatts

Several riverside gardens on or near the Thames Path are open this summer as part of the National Gardens Scheme. Sutton Courtenay Manor, a former grange of Abingdon Abbey and once home of Observer editor David Astor, opens its garden above the water meadows on Sunday afternoon 25 June. A new garden in the grounds [...]

Leigh Hatts writes: In writing a paragraph about Oxford’s riverside Grandpont House I tried to concentrate on history rather than now. But maybe I subbed too much by just saying of today “it remains a residence”. Since 1959 it has been the residence for male members of the now well-known Opus Dei. Indeed the house [...]