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Berrington Hall hosts amazing painted ceilings and beautiful French Regency furniture. All surrounded by a lake,an island and a walled garden which boasts an historic collection of old local apple trees.
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Rufford Old Hall is a spectacular great hall with intricately carved wooden screen and hammer-beam roof.
A young Shakespeare is said to have performed in the Great Hall.
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Shipton Hall was built around 1587, due to a fire distroying the previous house earlier in the century. The house is exquisite and surrounded by an old fashioned beautiful garden....
For over 200 years Cannon Hall was home to the Spencer-Stanhope family who made their fortune in the local iron industry. In the 1790's the architect John Carr of York enlarged the hall and redesigned the interior.
In 1957 the Hall opened as a mu...
Its spectacular landscape dotted with picturesque villages, its historic market towns, rich industrial heritage, popular family attractions and the rural walking & cycling countryside, including the Trans Pennine Trail, Cannon Hall Musuem, Park and G...
Open space oasis in the heart of suburbia. The parkland covers over 50 hectares (125 acres) with the River Wandle meandering through. The river plays an important role in the park with an old Snuff Mill, now used as an education centre, and a variety...
Elegant Georgian house in the Dutch style. Built in 1729 for merchant and ship owner John Harle, the house has fine wrought-iron gates, carved porch and interior panelling and plasterwork....
Magnificent Jacobean house, garden and park. Built in the early 17th century, Blickling is one of England's great Jacobean houses. The spectacular Long Gallery now houses one of the finest private collections of rare books in England. Also on display...
One of the finest 17th-century country houses in East Anglia. The Hall contains its original 18th-century furniture, one of the largest collections of Grand Tour paintings by a single artist, and an outstanding library. The Walled Garden has been res...
Romantic turreted brick Tudor mansion. Set in the unspoilt village of Long Melford, the house has changed little externally since 1578 when Queen Elizabeth I was entertained here, and retains its original panelled banqueting hall. It has been the hom...
15th-century moated manor house. This quintessential Tudor house, with its magnificent gatehouse and accessible Priest's Hole, was built in 1482 by the Bedingfeld family, who still live here. The rooms show the development from medieval austerity to ...
Magnificent 18th-century house. The grandest house in Cambridgeshire, set in an extensive wooded park, the Hall has fine interiors designed by Gibbs, Flitcroft and Soane, and fascinating servants' quarters. The garden has thousands of daffodils in Ap...
Fine red-brick house, dating from 1700, with Victorian walled gardens. Located at the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, Gunby Hall has an atmosphere redolent of many generations of family occupation. There are panelled rooms and a beautiful oak stairca...
Late 17th-century Baptist chapel. Resembling a brick barn, this remote chapel with outdoor baptistry was used by local Baptists as a secluded place of worship and is one of the two best surviving examples in England. It was substantially altered to i...
One of Britain's greatest and most complete Elizabethan houses. Like a huge glass lantern, Hardwick dominates the surrounding area -- a magnificent statement of the wealth and authority of its builder, Bess of Hardwick. Designed by Robert Smythson, t...
Neo-classical mansion with Adam interiors, landscape gardens and park. Kedleston was built between 1759 and 1765 for the Curzon family, who have lived in the area since the 12th century. The house boasts the most complete and least-altered sequence o...
Late 17th-century house with sumptuous interiors. The decoration includes woodcarving by Grinling Gibbons, superb plasterwork and painted murals and ceilings by Louis Laguerre, and there is a fine collection of portraits. The Great Staircase is one o...
Museum showing aspects of the life of children over the past 200 years. Housed in the 19th-century service wing of Sudbury Hall, the Museum contains fascinating displays about children from the 18th century onwards. There are chimney climbs for adven...
Handsome 16th-century house and restored garden. Situated on a plateau above the gorge of the River Severn, this fine stone house has mullioned and transomed windows and a stunning interior with carved oak staircase, decorated plaster ceilings and oa...
Stone-built house with fine 18th-century decoration and landscaped garden. This beautiful honey-coloured house, home of the Holbech family for over 300 years, was richly decorated in the mid-18th century. The interior plasterwork is some of the fines...
Early 18th-century country house, garden and parkland. Completed in 1701, this homely William & Mary-style house is famed for its fine painted ceilings and staircase, and has other fascinating features including an orangery, ice house, pavilions and ...
Stone-built house of Elizabethan origin. The house was altered and enlarged in the 18th century and is set in attractive gardens....
Elizabethan house, famous for its association with Charles II. The richly panelled walls of Moseley Old Hall conceal ingenious secret hiding places, designed for Catholic priests. One of these cramped priest holes saved Charles II when he hid here af...
Elizabethan house with rich interiors and an important textile collection. This imposing house, set in tranquil grounds in the heart of urban Lancashire, resembles the great Hardwick Hall and is very probably by the same architect, Robert Smythson. I...
Little Moreton Hall in Congleton,
Cheshire, is a moated manor house - the 'icon' of English Tudor domestic architecture. This is Britain's most famous and arguably finest timber-framed manor house. The drunkenly reeling south front, topped by a sp...
Tudor half-timbered house with rich interiors and fine gardens. The atmospheric interior of this rambling house spans many periods. Originally built in 1530, its Great Hall and priest hole date from Tudor times, while the Oak Parlour and smaller room...
18th-century mansion with National Portrait Gallery paintings and walled garden. York's 'country house and garden', this grand Georgian mansion with an impressive baroque interior exhibits over 100 18th-century portraits in partnership with the Natio...
17th-century farmhouse in beautiful Coverdale. This remote stone-built house has some fine original features including fireplaces and panelling. The main hall, sitting room and oak staircase are on show to visitors.
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Atmospheric 17th-century manor house with oak-framed barns and a lovely garden. The house has distinctive architectural features and is set in mature grounds with beech trees and a large duck pond. The interior has a wonderful ambience, furnished wit...
17th-century manor house. This compact stone manor house dates from 1650. It has a very fine carved wood staircase.
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Picturesque Yorkshire manor house with organic garden. The sheltered walled garden on the bank of the River Rye, with its delightful mixed borders, orchards of traditional fruit varieties and spring-flowering meadows, complements this mellow 17th-cen...
Mid 18th-century Palladian mansion. Ormesby Hall is an intimate home lived in by the Pennyman family for over 300 years, with fine plasterwork, carved wood decoration and fascinating portraits. The Victorian laundry and kitchen with scullery and game...
Manor house associated with the family of George Washington. Washington Old Hall is a delightful stone-built 17th-century manor house, which incorporates parts of the original medieval home of George Washington's direct ancestors. It is from here tha...
The extensive and picturesque ruins of a 15th-century riverside manor house, including a fine hall, south-west tower, and complete nearby dovecote. The home of Richard III's henchman Lord Lovell....
This 17th-century building housed the Assize Courts, which judged the more serious crimes such as murder. Today it is home to the Abingdon Museum....
One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks....
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country, and two rare and outstanding sets of 16th century wall paintings of mythical and Biblical subjects. Hill Hall has now been divide...
Kirby Hall is one of England's greatest Elizabethan and 17th-century houses. Begun by Sir Humphrey Stafford in about 1570, it was purchased six years later by Sir Christopher Hatton, one of Queen Elizabeth's 'comely young men' and later her Lord Chan...
Sutton Scarsdale Hall is now the imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since c. 1920, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America: but there is still much to di...
At Brodsworth Hall and Gardens near Doncaster you’ll discover the story of a house and the memories of a home that evolved through the ages. Conserved as it was found in the 1980s, the Hall's interior offers a time capsule of family life, from High...
A little-known gem, Gainsborough Old Hall is among the best-preserved medieval manor houses in England. Partly brick and partly timber-framed, and mainly later 15th century with Elizabethan additions, it has a kitchen with an enormous fireplace, a no...
Steeton Hall Gateway is a fine example of a small, well-preserved gatehouse dating from the 14th century....
Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens, in Northumberland has something for everyone, with a fine medieval castle, a Greek Revival villa and outstanding, plant-rich gardens to explore. Take in thirty acres of picturesque landscaping, including magnificent r...
This 15th-century tower, sole survivor of the manor house of the Wybergh family, was plundered by Jacobites in 1745 before the Battle of Clifton Moor, the last battle fought on English soil....
You can always be sure of a warm welcome at Leith Hall, a charming and intimate Scottish family home. The house itself was built over three centuries, starting in 1650, and remained the home of the Leith-Hay family until the mid-20th century. Alo...
A chance to take a look inside one of Glasgow city centre's landmark buildings. Before entering, take a moment to look up at the imposing 1805 facade complete with statues from an earlier building of 1641. Once inside you'll be swept up the magnifice...
Generations of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton, lived at Croxteth Hall from the sixteenth century until the death of the last Earl in 1972.
Society figures and royalty frequently came to stay for country house parties, particularly in th...
Arley Hall in Northwich Cheshire is one of the most interesting and attractive stately homes in the North West. The elaborate ceilings & oak panelling, impressive fireplaces, intricate stained glass and beautiful contents are not the only features w...
A semi-natural woodland with mature Turkey Oak, Beech and around 15 other native hardwood species. The woodland curves along the Ribble floodplain escarpment for about half a mile, affording good views of the river from its northern end. The public f...
Pleasington Old Hall Wood is a narrow strip of mixed woodland through which a stream runs from north to south. To the north there is a Victorian walled garden which has been converted into a wildlife garden. The woodland has a healthy structure o...
Moot Hall is a Tudor timber-framed market house dating back to the 16th century. It is now a museum illustrating 17th century English Life with particular reference to John Bunyan....
The Market Hall Museum houses displays of local archaeology, natural history and geology. A huge brown bear will be the first to greet you in the Museum entrance, and there are wilder beasts to follow. Track the early history of Warwickshire and find...
Himley Hall is a commanding 18th Century building set amongst 180 acres of 'Capability' Brown landscaped parkland. Once the family home to the Earls of Dudley it offers art and craft exhibitions as well as prestigious conference facilities and guided...
Aston Hall is a 400 year old Grade I listed building set in 52 acres of historic parkland. It still stands proudly next to Aston Villa FC despite many wars and weathering. The largest and oldest of the five community museums owned by Birmingham City ...
One of the few, remaining timber framed buildings left in Birmingham, the Hall was built in 1590 for Richard Smalbroke junior, who wanted to reflect his growing prosperity with a new and comfortable home. For example, the Hall contains a 'long galler...
Whether it's an action-packed day out for the whole family or somewhere tranquil to get lost in your own thoughts, Ragley has it all. With so much to see and do, visitors often begin with a tour of the delightful Palladian House designed by Robert Ho...
One of the few Iron Age brochs in lowland Scotland. Unusually large, it sits in a fort defended by ramparts and ditches, partially overlain by a settlement of the Romano-British period. Nearby is the Abbey St Bathan's woodland - a site of national im...
25 acres of stunning gardens, a sculpture park, an exciting children's adventure playground and miniature railway are just a few of the delights that await you at Newby Hall and Gardens this year. Newby Hall, the family home of Mr and Mrs Richard Com...
Barley Hall is a stunning medieval townhouse, once home to the Priors of Nostell and the Mayor of York. Until the 1980's the house was hidden under the relatively modern facade of a derelict office block. Only when the building was going to be destro...
Levens Hall is a magnificent Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th Century. The first dwelling at Levens was a medieval pele tower, built by the de Redman family of Yealand Redmayne. The Bellingham family, who were wealthy landowners, chose Levens...
Swarthmoor Hall was built about 1586 by George Fell, a local landowner. His son, Thomas, inherited the Hall and here in 1652 George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), gained the support and encouragement of Margaret, Thom...
The Shire Hall Gallery is an exciting and innovative contemporary visual art gallery. It hosts a diverse programme of lively and family friendly temporary art and craft exhibitions throughout the year and has a registered craft shop stocking quality ...
The 13th century Grade I listed Medieval hall provides a spectacular backdrop to the stunning gardens. Visitors from all over the world come to share in the timeless magic of Crook Hall and leave inspired by these idylic English theme gardens. Soak u...
Lady Waterford Hall was commissioned in 1860 by Louisa Anne, Marchioness of Waterford, and owner of Ford Estate. The building served as a school until 1957 and in its heyday had as many as 134 local children on the register. Now used as the Villag...
Old Hall Marshes Nature Reserve comprises of extensive grazing marshes with brackish water fleets, reedbeds, saltmarsh and two offshore islands. In winter, thousands of wildfowl come here and summer sees breeding waders....
Award winning Leighton Hall is the lived-in house of the famous furniture making Gillow dynasty. A visit to Leighton is an opportunity to unravel the fascinating past of this ancient, Lancashire family and wander through the spectacular grounds and p...
Adlington Hall lies in the heart of the Cheshire countryside, set in glorious gardens and surrounded by the 2000-acre Adlington estate. One of the most beautiful country homes in England, the Hall reflects both the history of English architecture ...
Eggleston Hall Gardens is set in four and a half acres of beautiful gardens, twisting paths and borders with a running stream. Makes Eggleston Hall perfect for walks....
Whitworth Hall Country Park is set in a beautiful scenic deer park. With stunning views looking over spennymoor you can't help but relax....
Sewerby Hall and Gardens has something for everyone. Discover what Sewerby Hall has to offer. Set in acres of natural countryside, with stunning views of the Yorkshire coast....
Knowsley Hall sits on a 2,500 acre private estate owned by the Earl and Countess of Derby. With a Safari Park, Spa and extensive grounds Knowsley Hall is totally unique. Available for private hire throughout the year but with various activity and fun...
Since 1822, the Music Hall has been at the heart of concert and community life in the North-east of Scotland. The magnificent building is a proud reminder of Aberdeen's most famous architect Archibald Simpson, and its main hall is praised throughout...
Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, Cumbria is housed in one of Kendal's most important buildings, a Grade I listed villa, on the banks of the river Kent. The galleries offer two floors of light-filled spaces in which to see art. The intimate rooms and...
Chilford Hall Vineyard in Cambridgeshire, is the biggest events venue in Eastern England and holds a variety of events....
Island Hall in Huntingdon Cambridgeshire is an important mid-18th Century mansion. This charming family home has splendid Georgian rooms which visitors can enjoy....
Visitors at Elton Hall near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire can see the brilliant treasures, paintings and furniture from this magnificent gothic house....
Southwick Hall in Peterborough
Cambridgeshire has architecture of many centuries after being altered on numerous occasions, but the house has still kept many of its original medieval layout....
Bramall Hall in Cheshire is a magnificent black and white timber-framed Tudor manor house with Victorian additions, spanning six centuries and set in 70 acres of parkland. It gives a unique insight into the families and servants who have lived and wo...
Peover Hall and Gardens was built in 1585 by Sir Ralph Mainwaring, The Hall is a stunning example of an Elizabethan manor house, with its carved staircase, panelled walls and a good length gallery. General George S Patton used this beautiful building...
Capesthorne Hall in Macclesfield, Cheshire Capesthorne has been touched by nearly 1,000 years of English History. Roman Legions passed across it. Titled Norman families hunted on it. In the Civil War the family was Royalist and an ancestress helped C...
Gawsworth Hall in Macclesfield, Cheshire is an ancient manor house. The original Norman house was rebuilt in 1480....
Dorfold Hall in Nantwich, Cheshire, is a Jacobean country house built in 1616 for Ralph Wilbraham. The house has stunning plaster ceilings and panelling complimented by fascinating furniture and pictures. Dorfold is set in 18 acres of gardens which r...
Rode Hall in Scholar Green, Cheshire is where Wilbraham family have lived since 1669; the present house was constructed in two stages, the earlier two storey wing and stable block around 1705 and the main building in 1752. The house contains many fin...
Walton Hall Gardens in Warrington, Cheshire, is the ideal place for a family day out with spacious lawns, picnic areas, play area, children's zoo, heritage centre and outdoor games. The mature parkland and ornamental gardens remain beautiful through...
Meols Hall in Southport, Merseyside, Meols Hall is Southport's historical manor house dating back to the early 12th Century. Set in one hundred acres of private park land close to the picturesque village of Churchtown, this is one of the oldest settl...
Trecarrell Manor Chapel and Hall is a small, mediaeval stone hall with beautiful oriel window and an impressive hearth. A minstrel's gallery completes the scene. Set in unspoilt natural countryside, with an small,ancient chapel next door, this place ...
King Arthur's Great Halls is the only building in world dedicated to the Arthurian legend.
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Visitors to Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens are sure to have a great day, seeing all the animals in the Zoo. Thribgy Hall is one of Norfolk's most visited attractions....
Houghton Hall is a beautiful stately home set in stunning grounds, with wild deer roaming free and land scaped lawns it is relaxing just wandering the grounds. You can visit the museum or relax and have refreshments....
Dragon Hall was built in about 1430 and is a Grade 1 listed trading hall. It is one of the most important historic buildings in Norwich and Norfolk....
ILPH Hall Farm offers a recovery and rehabilitation centres for injuried and unwanted horses and ponies....
Euston Hall, home to the Dukes of Grafton for over 300 years. Has origins dating from the Middle Ages, contains among its treasures the famous 17th century collection of paintings of the Court of Charles II by Van Dyck and Lely, also the celebrated '...
Holkham Hall is a stunning statley home set on beautiful estate, surrounded by landscaped gardens....
Set in over 100 acres of magnificent parkland, Preston Hall was built in 1825. The museum provides an opportunity to explore domestic life of the past with the many recreated period rooms ranging from an 1880s parlour to a 1960s bedsit....
Kirkleatham Museum is the local history museum for the Borough of Redcar & Cleveland. It was opened on 5th October 1981, after the rationalisation of the Museums Service. The Service was originally based at the Chapel Beck Gallery, Guisborough and th...
Set in beautiful countryside at the entrance to Wensleydale, this extensive romantic garden is surrounded by 18th Century Parkland with a superb John Carr house (not open). Fine trees and woodland walks combine with an interesting collection of alpi...
A stunning Georgian house with Serpentine park and terraced garden. Aske has been the family seat of the Dundas family since 1763. This Georgian treasure house boasts exquisite 18th century furniture, paintings and porcelain, including work by Robert...
Kiplin Hall, in England's beautiful Vale of Mowbray, was built in the 1620s for George Calvert, Secretary of State to James I, later 1st Lord Baltimore and founder of Maryland, USA. Its design was unique in Jacobean architecture, with central domed t...
Markenfield Hall is a spectacular mediaeval house, built mainly in 1310, and completely surrounded by its moat. It has been wonderfully little altered since, and is the most complete surviving medium-sized fourteenth century country house left in Eng...
Parcevall Hall Gardens lie on a steep hillside and are the only RHS and English Heritage registered gardens open to the public in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The twenty four acres of formal and woodland gardens rise up the hillside and command...
One of the finest medieval and early post-medieval halls there is; Smithills is set in 2,200 acres on the edge of the west Pennine moors. Dating right back to the 14th century, this magnificent Grade 1 listed building reveals amazing secrets about it...
Sion Hill Hall was designed in 1912 by the renowned York Architect Walter H. Brierley 'the Lutyens of the North'.
With its fine lines, unique character and well planned layout, the house was described by the Royal Institute of British Architects a...
Late Georgian house by Peter Atkinson, influenced by John Carr of York. Begun in 1804, its outstanding feature is the oval entrance hall with cantilevered stone staircase. Fine furniture and paintings, family mementoes of the Fitzalan Howard family.<...
These delightful Gardens, close to the centre of Pocklington (a thriving market town in the County of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England), are home to a National Collection of Hardy Water Lilies - the biggest such collection to be found in a natur...
Mr and Mrs William Worsley invite you to visit their historic 18th Century house set in beautiful Ryedale countryside. For over 400 years Hovingham has been the home of the Worsley family. The Palladian house was built between 1750 and 1770 by Thomas...
The Merchant Adventurers' Hall is one of the best preserved medieval guild halls in the world and is still owned and used by the York Company of Merchant Adventurers who built it over 650 years ago. Construction began in 1357. Explore the Great Hall ...
Here in 1760-67 the witty and eccentric parson, Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey. Sometimes between writing he stepped out into his garden 'to weed, hack up old roots or wheel away rubbish'. The early 15th century house...
The museum collections focus on the local and social history of the pre-1965 London Boroughs of Edmonton, Southgate and Enfield (now the London Borough of Enfield), with a strong emphasis on everyday, household ceramics and glass of the 19th and 20th...
Positioned at the junction of Foster Lane and Gresham Street, north east of St. Paul's Cathedral, the magnificent Hall, opened in 1835, is one of London's hidden treasures. The Hall is the third on this site, the Goldsmiths' Company being located ...
Brass rubbing is an enjoyable way of discovering a little more about medieval church history with the added bonus of making your own artwork to take home. We have a choice of replica memorial brasses on offer, and we provide all the necessary papers ...
Ascog Hall, with it's award-winning Victorian fernery and enchanting garden, can be found on the beautiful island of Bute in the Clyde estuary - only a virtual stone's throw from Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ascog Hall was built in 1844 by the Rev. Jame...
Heaton Park is a huge family park open 365 days and is free to enter, although a small car parking charge is made at weekends. There are two cafes, a farm centre, great children's play areas, tram museum and boating lake. Heaton Park hosts many eve...
House dating from 1580s with C18 and C19 alterations. Requires a new roof, as the roof structure is rotting, also repair of the timber frame and brickwork is needed. Due to the condition of exterior, the interior is very vulnerable. Ravaged by fire i...
Ordsall Hall, a magnificent Grade I listed manor house dating back over 600 years is currently undergoing a large scale restoration. Due to this work it is closed to the public until Spring 2011 when it will re-open with restored and accessible inter...
Croxdale Hall, home to the Salvin family since 1402, stands boldly over the River Wear. All visits by prior appointment - please telephone 0191 378 0911 to book.
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Seaton Delaval Hall is an English baroque house, built between 1718 and 1728 for Admiral George Delaval. The house is regarded as the finest example of design by Sir John Vanbrugh; who also built Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Of particular not...
The foundations of a turret and a 65-metre (213 feet) length of Wall....
Brougham Hall stands on a site which has been a fortified home since at least 1307.
It reached it's zenith in Victorian Times, when it became known as the Windsor of the North, and the home of the Lord Chancellor of England.
As a halfway hous...
Graythwaite Hall Gardens deftly illustrate the genius of Thomas Mawson. Commisioned in 1896 he was instructed to utilise the existing contours and landscape to make a garden combining the formal and informal.
It is essentially a Spring garden sett...
Haddon Hall is probably the finest example of a fortified medieval manor house in existence. Present-day Haddon Hall dates from the 12th Century to the early 17th Century, whereupon it lay dormant for over two hundred years from 1700 until the 1920s,...
Welcome to Eyam Hall, the historic Derbyshire home of the Wright family. Our family is the latest in a long line of Wrights who have been fortunate enough to live in this beautiful house for over 300 years.
The house is a remarkably unspoilt exam...
Melbourne Hall is a delightful house full of history.
Originally a rectory for the Norman Parish Church, it became the home of Sir John Coke in 1628 and has been inherited by subsequent members of the family to the present day and is now home to L...
We have a beautiful 300-acre park, eight acres of the most important Italianate gardens in England, and a house full of treasures large and small collected over many centuries. This is open by appointment to the public for exclusive and intimate tour...
The centre-piece of the Inverness Floral Experience is the Floral Hall - a sub-tropical corner amid the grandeur of Highland scenery which provides a fitting addition to the range of parks, gardens, sports facilities and leisure provision which can b...
This, the 'new hall', was built in 1545 and though there appears to be no written link between it and the 'de Heskin' family (of whom there is littlle record), there is evidance to link it with some of the best known names in English history.
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Browsholme Hall, pronounced 'Brewsom', is an historic house and the ancestral home of the Parker Family, Bowbearers of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, who have lived there since it was built in 1507. The present day owners Robert and Amanda Parker...
Discover where the past meets the present at Samlesbury Hall: a haven for history lovers, a place of peace and tranquility, a home for Lancashire’s finest produce and a fantastic family day out.
Visit our splendid gallery and shop to sample Lanc...
Belgrave Hall provides an oasis of peace and quiet in a busy city.
It was built in the early 18th century, in what was then a small village three miles from the town of Leicester. Now city traffic passes, almost unnoticed, just beyond the garden ...
STANFORD, where Shakespeare's Avon flows gently through the Park, has been the home of the Cave family, ancestors of the present owner Nicholas Fothergill, since 1430. In the 1690s, Sir Roger Cave commissioned the Smiths of Warwick to pull down the o...
This unique example of an English Baroque Garden is being restored as near as possible to the period 1680 - 1762 by Castle Bromwich Hall and Gardens Trust .
The 10 acre Walled Garden contains over 600 species of plants from the period.
The Holl...
The fine Georgian house is the third to be built on this site and sits magnificently in the landscaped parkland designed by Capability Brown during the 1760’s.
The magnificent oak avenue leading to the front of the house dates from the 17th cent...
Cottesbrooke Hall dates back to 1702, although the identity of the original architect remains a mystery. There was further substantial development during the 18th century, including the addition by Robert Mitchell, of the East and West Bows in the Ad...
Kelmarsh Hall is a graceful 18 th century historic house, set in beautiful romantic gardens and surrounded by its own working estate in the rolling Northamptonshire and Leicestershire countryside....
The Hall is set in tranquil gardens, enclosed by a spacious park. Of the gardens originally laid out in 1655, by Gilbert Clarke, only the surrounding banks and large wrought iron gates still remain.
There are several sycamores and cedars, which we...
The gardens at Howick are deliberately aimed at garden lovers with the extensive grounds offering a wide variety of plants throughout the year.
In the spring and early summer the Woodland Garden is particularly lovely with rhododendrons, camellias...
Holme Pierrepont Hall, long the home of the Pierrepont family, was built in the 16th century, although much of what can be seen of the house nowadays is a result of alterations in 1790 and 1812....
IN the burial ground belonging to Papplewick Church there is a grand, sombre yew, and just beyond the spread of its sheltering branches is to be observed a tomb of more pretension than the rest of the graves, which are chiefly marked by such humble m...
A spectacular Elizabethan mansion surrounded by 500 acres of stunning parkland and deer park. The Hall houses the Natural History Museum with a fascinating collection from all around the world, along with special Sunday Steaming Events in the Industr...
There have been gardens at Hodnet since the 11th century when the Heber-Percy family constructed their first house in the parkland. Their serious development began in 1921 by the late Brigadier Heber-Percy and today, the 60+ acres are renowned as am...
Cusworth Hall has been described as the jewel in Doncaster’s crown. The beautiful grade 1 listed building is set in acres of historic parkland with lakes, plantations and pleasure ground with dramatic views across the town.
The site which was ex...
Located in over 200 acres of stunning Cheshire countyside and within easy reach of Manchester, Chester and Liverpool, Catton Hall is the ideal location for businesses throughout the North West seeking a venue to host corporate days, teambuilding even...
Whitmore Hall is a fine Carolean manor house set in landscaped gardens and surrounded by a beautiful park.
The manor of Whitmore has always passed by descent, never by sale, and the present owners, the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family, are direct descen...
Home to the Ford family for nearly 200 years, Ford Green Hall is a 17th century timber-framed farmhouse complete with period garden.
An award-winning museum, the hall offers visitors a fascinating insight into the life of the 17th century. The roo...
There is much to appreciate at and about Middleton Hall. It was never a palace but it shows evidence of several phases of English domestic architecture from the late thirteenth to the early nineteenth century. There is a fine Great Hall that is of Tu...
Bourne Hall, situated in the heart of Ewell Village, is a remarkable modern building of unusual architectural interest, surrounded by beautiful grounds. Opened in 1970, it is well furnished, well equipped and flexible enough to accommodate most requi...
Arbury Hall, originally built on the ruins of a 12th century Augustinian Priory, now stands in the midst of beautiful 18th century landscaped gardens and surrounded by over 100 acres of lakes and parkland, and has been the home of the Newdegate famil...
Manor house built in the early 1680's. Modified in 1751 when the interior was lavishly restored and contains exceptional mid-Georgian plasterwork....
An attractive Elizabethan manor house, set out as a family home of the 1690s and surrounded by 110 acres of country park. The Visitor Centre includes a shop, café and the 'Discover Oakwell' gallery.
This beautiful Elizabethan manor house has de...
It's easy to see why Bolling Hall was a pleasant family home for more than five centuries, with views right over the city towards the open hills and moors beyond. The oldest part has been standing since well before Henry VIII came to the throne, and ...
Cartwright Hall is Bradford's civic art gallery and offers an exciting programme of contemporary exhibitions, with four permanent galleries displaying works from our art collections. The collections consist mainly of 19th and 20th century British art...
Lotherton Hall is a beautiful Edwardian country house with a bird garden, red deer park and formal gardens.
The house is a treasure trove of arts and crafts with fine collections of paintings, silver, ceramics and beautiful costume galleries....
See 200 magnificent species in one of the most famous and comprehensive collections of rare and endangered birds in the country.
From flamingoes and snowy owls to cassowaries and hornbills, many of them are part of endangered breeding programmes.<...
Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and museum is situated on the edge of Shipley Glen, a popular beauty spot. The Centre has displays relating to the natural history, geology, archaeology and local history of the area. The colourful interactive wildlife...
Harvington is a moated medieval and Elizabethan manor-house south-east of Kidderminster. Many of the rooms still have their original Elizabethan wall-paintings and the Hall contains the finest series of priest-holes anywhere in the country.
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At Elsham Hall you will really enjoy visiting our arboretum, outdoor wild butterfly garden, animal farm, adventure playground, carp and trout lakes. Also take a look at many of the other attractions at Elsham Hall.
The walled garden is a magnifice...
Aubourn Hall is set in 10 acres of glorious borders, shrubs, walks and ponds surround this beautiful 17th century manor house....
Doddington Hall is a much loved family home and has never been sold since it was built in 1595 by Robert Smythson, one of England's foremost Elizabethan architects. The mellow brick exterior with its walled courtyards has barely changed while the int...
Set in the heart of undiscovered North Lincolnshire, the 300 acres of Normanby Hall Museum and Country Park provides the perfect day out for all the family.
Return to the elegance of a more leisurely era in the beautiful Regency Hall and learn abo...
Moyse's Hall Museum For almost a thousand years Moyse's Hall has looked out over the Market Place of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. It has seen many changes since it was built in 1180 and has had a variety of different uses, including a tavern and a 'ga...
Once occupied by Romans and recorded in Doomesday, the ancient estate of Wyken is quintessential Suffolk: country lanes, hedgerows, patchwork fields and woodlands. Wyken is a 1200-acre farm which includes a flock of Shetland sheep, a small herd of R...
At Helmingham Hall Gardens it is hard to exaggerate the effect this beautiful park, with its red deer, spectacular moated Hall in mellow patterned red brick with its famous gardens will have on the visitor. The whole combines to give an extraordinary...
Kentwell Hall is not a 'stately home' but very much a lived-in and loved family home, something it has been for over 500 years. The public see much of the House, including rooms used by the family - usually with obvious signs of use. It is also a pr...
Somerleyton Hall is widely regarded as one of the best examples of an archetypal Tudor-Jacobean mansion and one of the most beautiful stately homes in Britain whose rooms and gardens are open to the public. The highlights of the house include: T...
Otley Hall is privately owned by Ian and Catherine Beaumont. Ian is from Ipswich and has returned to Suffolk with his young family. Otley Hall, a grade I listed historic house in Suffolk, has a long and distinguished history and is situated in ten ...
Inside the Court Hall museum, displays illustrate the history of the Antient Town, since it was built by Edward I as a medieval 'New Town' over 700 years ago, and about Winchelsea's position as Head Port of the Confederation of Cinque Ports.
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Solent Sky Museum Solent Sky Aviation Museum depicts the history of aviation in the Solent area and Hampshire. The Museum tells the story of 26 aircraft companies including the Supermarine Aircraft Works where RJ Mitchell's famous aircraft, the Spitf...
The first and finest of all 13th century halls, with the greatest symbol of medieval mythology, King Arthur's Round Table. Winchester Castle dates from the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). By the end of King John's reign in 1216 the castl...
Glansevern Hall is romantically positioned on the banks of the River Severn with gardens that extend to more than 25 acres. There is a gentle walk from the gardens to the Severn through the "folly garden" and wild flower meadow with a raised bird-hi...
The Town Hall is without doubt one of the town's most beautiful buildings. Donated to the people of Braintree by the Courtauld family in 1928, this Georgian style building is steeped in history and provides a perfect environment for all sorts of occ...
New Hall Vineyard is an English Wine Producer with over 65 hectares of vines and is one of the oldest and largest in the country. Visitors can come and explore the grounds. It was first established by the Greenwood family, in the Essex village of ...
RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex, was a farm house which was made into a garden after 1955 and then taken over by the RHS. It has lawns, a dell, a lily pond, raised beds, mixed borders and other features. A surprising number of plants flourish on a ...
Copt Hall Marshes on the remote and beautiful Blackwater Estuary is a noted site for overwintering birds, and can be viewed from a waymarked circular route....
Enjoy a great day at Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum, Essex The Gardens and Arboretum located in Essex, feature landscaped woodland walks and footpaths, with vistas across the lakes to the Millennium Walk and the 18th Century Walled Garden, recen...
Here at Ingatestone Hall in 1566, wrote Thomas Larke, surveyor to Sir William Petre, about Ingatestone Hall, the new house that Sir William had built twenty-five years earlier in the midst of his Essex estates. Since then, the house has passed throu...
Southchurch Hall museum is housed in the half-timbered medieval manor house, which dates to the early 14th century. The Museum is laid out in a series of period rooms and is an ideal setting for discovering what life was like in medieval, Tudor, S...
Walton Hall Museum is an impressive 17th century restored Essex Barn. Displays include, farming implements, automobile memorabilia, artefacts from both world wars, childrens toys, Victorian nursery including many perambulators, radios and much mo...
Cohbam Hall, a beautiful red brick Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolean and 18th Century style mansion, is set in 150 acres of historic Grade II listed landscaped gardens and parkland and described as "one of the largest, finest and most important houses ...
New Hall Museum was built in 1575, this old court room contains maps and charts and exhibits found on the Romney Marsh....
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 1,344 metres (4,409 ft) above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William....
