Sarah Merker shared the early part of her 244-site journey with her husband, who died of cancer in 2018

A woman from London has completed a decade-long mission to sample a scone at every National Trust location with a tearoom or restaurant.

Sarah Merker, 49, from Isleworth, west London, tasted scones at 244 National Trust sites across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Merker ranked and reviewed each scone on her blog, nationaltrustscones.com.

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