WOMEN’S WORK
Imagine coming home after a hard day at work. You turn off the road into your driveway: it leads you through an allée of mature cherry trees before meandering through an idyllic pastoral scene of grazing cattle, then on into dappled woodland. Finally it emerges at the northern side of your home, where neatly mown lawns merge into a landscape of meadow and parkland, with extensive views across the rolling countryside. Imagine how the worries of the day would float away into the faint salt tang of the breeze. Welcome to Tyninghame House.
Situated on the estuary of the River Tyne in East Lothian, half a mile from the sea, this imposing red sandstone building was for centuries the seat of the Earls
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