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 and 1666. In the orchard is the apple tree said to have inspired his theory of gravity.
The Science Centre in the barn has hands-on experiments with light and gravity that children enjoy.
A perfect example of a Restoration country house, built in the 1680s for the Brownlow family, with rooms of fine plasterwork, carvings and silver.
A towering red-brick castle built in the 1430s for Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England, rising high above the flat Lincolnshire fens.
The "un-stately home": a Baroque mansion where the reclusive Harpur Crewe family hoarded everything and changed little for over a century.
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 Palladian mansion with some of the finest interiors by Robert Adam, built in the 1760s for the Curzon family.
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