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Britain's quirkiest holiday lets are landmarks

Paul Heymont 6/25/184:55 PM

Britain's Landmark Trust, which rents vacation space in historic if sometimes odd buildings it rescues and restores, is soon to open its 200th property, a medieval house in Monmouthshire, with the nearly unsayable name of Llwyn Celyn.

The Telegraph (UK) took the occasion to round up an assortment of the Trust's biggest, smallest, remotest, most popular and more, including the newest, a modern but significant house younger than some of the potential renters.

Many of the properties, including Clavell Tower, on the Dorset Coast, are hugely popular and booked way in advance. Clavell, which was known to Thomas Hardy and features in The Black Tower by P.D. James is the most popular, and is booked through next year. It nearly didn't survive: the Trust had to move it, stone by stone, away from the crumbling cliff it stood on.

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