"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, whose initials ES stand on the roof against the sky. Inside are one of the best collections of Elizabethan tapestries and needlework.
The ruins of the Old Hall next door, cared for by English Heritage, and the parkland with rare breeds are worth exploring too.
Over 3,800 acres of parkland, woods and heath in Sherwood Forest, once the estate of the Dukes of Newcastle.
A Palladian mansion with some of the finest interiors by Robert Adam, built in the 1760s for the Curzon family.
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…
Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield, with gritstone edges, moorland and limestone dales.
The "un-stately home": a Baroque mansion where the reclusive Harpur Crewe family hoarded everything and changed little for over a century.
A perfect example of a Restoration country house, built in the 1680s for the Brownlow family, with rooms of fine plasterwork, carvings and silver.
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