Set on a cliff overlooking the North Sea, Corton is a coastal village, whose quintessential Englishness is reflected in local interest embracing porcelain, politics, friendly paternalism… and a pot or two of a table favourite.
For it was here at Corton at the end of the 19th Century that Jeremiah Colman, patriarch of the mustard family, built a house called The Clyffe and turned an already beautiful estate into the loveliest gardens on the east coast. After its sale to a business syndicate in 1917, the property was bought by W J Brown MP in 1924 on behalf of the Civil Service Holiday Association, with the express intention of providing public servants and “colleagues in similar professions” with the ideal holiday. In 1946 Warner acquired the Corton estate and began developing a fine modern coastal village.
