Home of the potato and tobacco

South Wraxall Manor, a Grade 1 Listed building, that is now home to Duran Duran guitarist John Taylor and his wife Gela Nash-Taylor (Founder of Juicy Couture).

Reportedly, Sir Walter Raleigh smoked the first tobacco and brought the potato here, for the first time in the UK.

In the 1950's, the 2nd Viscount Longs sister-in-law, who was married to Lord Rothermere, lived here. Anne later divorced Rothermere, to marry Ian Fleming, spending many years here, entertaining the rich and famous.

I have a little connection with this infamous country house, my Great Grandfather, installed the water system into the pond, that you can just see to the right of the photo behind the wall. My nan, used to play there as a child, when Sara, the only daughter of the 2nd Viscount Long, and wife of Conservative MP, Charles Morrison, lived there.