Marvellously situated in a tranquil valley along the rugged Atlantic coast of Devon, Hartland Abbey seems at first glance like a Regency house in the Gothic style so beloved by the late-Georgian ...

John Goodall looks at the history of Hartland Abbey in Devon after the Reformation, and its descent in the hands of one family to the present. N.B. This is the second of two recent articles on ...

Charity Wakefield plays the part of Marianne in the BBC's adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, which was partly filmed on the Hartland Abbey estate in North Devon. Photo: BBC.