The Akenfield writer’s ancient Essex farmhouse will be opened up as a sanctuary for people and wildlifeSitting in the folds of the Essex countryside at the end of a sunken lane, the modest home of writer Ronald Blythe is to become an unlikely nature reserve.When he died in 2023 at the age of 100 the acclaimed author of Akenfield, a classic account of rapidly changing rural life in the 1960s, left his ancient farmhouse to Essex Wildlife Trust. Continue reading...