Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's scrap-yard business. He soon becomes a much-respected "Squire" who is determined to treat all his tenant farmers fairly, unlike his predecessor.
1902: valley for sale
1902: the party
1903: an outbreak of romance
1905: a birth and a death
1905: the storm
1905: the hollow victory
1914: the last hot summer
1914: call to arms
1915: death of a hero
1916: the profiteers
1917: the bad season
1918: the service
1919: the old and the new
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