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A NEW LEASE OF LIFE

From as early as the 12th century, there has been a church on the plot next door overlooking the Thames, explains Alix Bateman, the current custodian of a small but beautiful slice of history in leafy Clapham Old Town, south-west London. The coach house that she now calls home stands next to the church and was built during Georgian times on the site of the original manor house of Clapham. ‘Old plans show Glebe House, as it is known, to be actually in the position of

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