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Article: Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons. (Great Milton, Oxford, England)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- December 1, 1993
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If London is still the magnet that attracts most visitors to England, the English country-house hotel looking out on acres of parterres and parkland, with the traditional pursuits--huntin', shootin' and fishin'--all at hand, has particular appeal for Americans, with or without a squire complex.
But thanks to the flood of Yanks tramping through the bracken in the '80s, and the rise of the new European Yuppie class, the huntin', shootin' and the rest made way for the kind of luxe international resort few English country gentlemen ever enjoyed.
Nowhere is the new reality more effectively realized than at Chewton Glen, an 18th-century Palladian house near ...