{"id":52074,"date":"2025-04-26T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52074\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:16:12","slug":"julia-bradburys-stunning-childhood-rectory-home-in-englands-smallest-county-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52074\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Bradbury’s stunning childhood rectory home in ‘England’s smallest county’ | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia Bradbury was born in Dublin, but spent her childhood in a stunning rectory home surrounded by orchards and sweeping countryside views. Talking about the location that first inspired her passion for nature, she told House Beautiful<\/a>: “I grew up in a quaint village in Rutland, the smallest county in England, in a 400-year-old rectory next to a church.”<\/p>\n

Her parents still have access to that location today – but it is her childhood years there which she’s most fond of, when life at home was “idyllic, peaceful and loving”. The now 54-year-old TV host has vivid memories of everything, even down to a favourite apple tree in the garden. She told Lincolnshire Life<\/a>: “From a very early age, probably about six, I\u2019ve been exposed to the outdoors.<\/p>\n

“What do I love about it? It\u2019s so engaging. It\u2019s all around you and there\u2019s nowhere you can\u2019t explore \u2013 it\u2019s where your imagination and your walking boots will take you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her favourite outdoor partner to this day is her dad, a former marketing director at British Steel who would indulge in escapism from his hectic everyday life by walking with her.<\/p>\n

Growing up, the pair would camp, fish and walk together, as well as exploring the picturesque reservoir on their doorstep.<\/p>\n

The only outdoor pursuit he didn’t join her in doing, she says, was scrumping apples from the orchards that surrounded their home.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Julia’s mum Chrissi started her own couture fashion business within the walls of the rectory as a “cottage industry, working from home” before opening boutiques in Sheffield and London’s Knightsbridge.<\/p>\n

Today, Julia – a courageous breast cancer survivor and mum-of-three – retains her passion for the great outdoors.<\/p>\n

She might no longer live in the “beautiful” rectory that she was so fond of as a child, but her current home in London is giving her just as much joy.<\/p>\n

It’s surrounded by collectible items from her travels around the world, everywhere from Mexico to Bali, with perhaps her most prized possession being a huge stone Buddha she bought for \u00a3500.<\/p>\n

In youth she had her beloved apple tree, but now that’s been replaced by a mature London plane tree outside the window of her current home, which she poignantly says provided enormous comfort when she was healing from cancer.<\/p>\n

She confessed: “During my recovery, it became my friend and I spoke to it and expressed my gratitude as I got stronger.”<\/p>\n

Julia Bradbury is on James Martin’s Saturday Morning show today (April 26), which begins at 9:30am.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Bradbury was born in Dublin, but spent her childhood in a stunning rectory home surrounded by orchards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,27886,393,4884,27887,27885,27888,27890,27891,27889,27892,16,15,27893],"class_list":{"0":"post-52074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-countryfile","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-james-martins-saturday-morning","13":"tag-julia-bradbury","14":"tag-julia-bradbury-childhood","15":"tag-julia-bradbury-latest","16":"tag-julia-bradbury-news","17":"tag-julia-bradbury-rectory-home","18":"tag-julia-bradbury-update","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-where-does-julia-bradbury-live"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114404221462123684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}