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A tour of Broughton Hall, home of the Tempests for 1,000 years and the inspiration for Tottering-by-Gently

Broughton Hall is the childhood home of Country Life’s cartoonist Annie Tempest, whose family have lived here for 1,000 years. Steven Desmond took a look at this palatial house and gardens; photographs by Val Corbett.

One of the pleasures of travelling along the A59 just west of Skipton in North Yorkshire is the sudden, and brief, glimpse of Broughton Hall immediately to the south.

The great stone house, seated low in its park, is framed on one side by a tower worthy…

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