Walkers' home large and cool amid spreading trees (9)
I believe the answer is:
leicester
'walkers' home' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'large and cool amid spreading trees' is the wordplay.
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'cool' becomes 'ice' (icing is a kind of cooling).
'amid' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'spreading' is an anagram indicator.
'trees' with letters rearranged gives 'ester'.
'ice' placed inside 'ester' is 'eicester'.
'l'+'eicester'='LEICESTER'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for leicester that I've seen before include "At Richmond Palace a favourite" , "English cheese, maybe red" , "City, Robert Dudley" , "Orange kind of cheese" , "City; orange cheese" .)