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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

English Heritage launches ‘bonding benches’ to tackle parental isolation

The Elizabethan Garden, filled with flowers and shrubbery, in the foreground, with Kenilworth Castle, a ruined castle, in the background
Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. A feature of the bonding benches will be a sliding notice that people can set to ‘up for a chat’ or ‘craving quiet’. Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy

The great stone circles, abbeys, castles and manor houses that English Heritage manages acted for centuries as places to meet and mingle.

Now in an effort to tackle parental isolation, the charity is tapping back into this sense of community by introducing “bonding benches” at many of its most famous sites.

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