From the outside, 575 Wandsworth Road looks like any other terraced house in London. Step inside, and you enter another world. In 1986, Kenyan-born poet, novelist and civil servant …
A diverse estate, including Ivinghoe Beacon and Hills: an important habitat for orchids and butterflies, as well as a historic Iron Age hill fort. Ashridge woods contain many …
Attingham Park, built for the 1st Lord Berwick in 1785, was owned by the same family for more than 160 years. As their fortunes rose and fell, they proved themselves to be …
Baddesley Clinton was the home of the Ferrers family for 500 years. This long history can be read in its walls. The model of a medieval moated manor house, Baddesley Clinton has …
The Bath Skyline guidebook provides detailed instructions to walks within the boundaries of the UNESCO World Heritage site but which feel miles away from the hustle and bustle of …
What Beatrix Potter took from Lakeland's spectacular landscape in the form of inspiration for her world-famous children's books, she gave back more than ten-fold as a …
Discover Beatrix Potter's lovely farmhouse and cottage garden and see how her surroundings inspired many scenes in her books, and how, in later life, she reinvented herself as a …
Begun for Sir John Brownlow in 1685, Belton was designed to impress. Across its 300-year history, each generation of the family left its creative mark. The work of leading …
The playwright George Bernard Shaw threw all his immense energies into making the world a better place. At the same time he needed a refuge from celebrity. He found this at Shaw's …
Blickling was the first gift of its kind to the National Trust and the nation, and one that keeps giving. Nobody ever forgets their first sight of Blickling. The …
