A towering red-brick castle built in the 1430s for Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England, rising high above the flat Lincolnshire fens. It was rescued from ruin in 1911 by Lord Curzon, who brought back its great carved fireplaces after they had been ripped out for sale.
Climb the 149 steps to the battlements for views as far as Lincoln Cathedral and Boston Stump on a clear day.
A perfect example of a Restoration country house, built in the 1680s for the Brownlow family, with rooms of fine plasterwork, carvings and silver.
The farmhouse where Isaac Newton was born in 1642 and where he did much of his most important work while Cambridge was closed by the plague in 1665 a…
Over 3,800 acres of parkland, woods and heath in Sherwood Forest, once the estate of the Dukes of Newcastle.
"Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall": an Elizabethan prodigy house built in the 1590s for Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest women in England, who…
A moated manor house built in 1482 by the Bedingfeld family, who still live here.
A long shingle spit on the north Norfolk coast, home to England's largest colony of grey seals; around 4,000 pups are born here each winter.
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