![]() ![]() One streak of water comes from nowhere to run along the face of the house, while another snakes behind then disappears, engulfed by a new vision: a maze of towering topiary that points and undulates, hides and exposes. Cosseting it are three greeny-black moats, whose patterns play games with logic. The track winds to a wide-fronted and narrow-waisted Tudor house built in dark-red diaper brick. The feeling is heightened by the knowledge that at the end of the path is a house not only steeped in intrigue dating back to King Alfred, but one whose current châtelaine, Amanda Feilding, has for almost 60 years been a passionate agitator in “The Psychedelic Renaissance”. ![]() This patchwork of marshland is said to have inspired Lewis Carroll’s mind-bending chessboard in Alice Through the Looking Glass, and on this eerie morning such strangeness tilts the perspective. A low mist is hovering above the fens on either side of the mile-long track to Beckley Park. ![]()
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