A Palladian mansion with some of the finest interiors by Robert Adam, built in the 1760s for the Curzon family. The Marble Hall, with its columns of alabaster, is one of the grandest rooms in England, and the Eastern Museum holds objects collected by Lord Curzon when he was Viceroy of India.
Walk around the lakes and the parkland, also laid out by Adam.
The "un-stately home": a Baroque mansion where the reclusive Harpur Crewe family hoarded everything and changed little for over a century.
A limestone valley in the Peak District, with steep wooded sides and strange rock formations such as Lion's Head Rock and Ilam Rock along the River D…
"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…
Over 3,800 acres of parkland, woods and heath in Sherwood Forest, once the estate of the Dukes of Newcastle.
Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield, with gritstone edges, moorland and limestone dales.
A wonderfully crooked Tudor manor house of black and white timber framing, surrounded by a moat.
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