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    Jul 14, 2021 3 minutes
    WORDS SIAN WILLIAMS
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    BRENT DARBY

    Old-Lands country estate sits on the Welsh side of the border with England in Monmouthshire, just a stone’s throw from historic Raglan Castle. Its managers, Sam and Clare Bosanquet, an ecologist and naturalist and a photographer respectively, took on the family estate in 2015 when Sam’s father decided it needed a fresh approach and new ideas.

    The estate has been in the Bosanquet family for some 200 years. The main house is a handsome building

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