The "un-stately home": a Baroque mansion where the reclusive Harpur Crewe family hoarded everything and changed little for over a century. The National Trust has kept it in its state of decline, with peeling paint, rooms crammed with stuffed birds and old toys, and a carriage stable full of forgotten things.
The walled gardens and the ancient oaks of the park, a nature reserve, are worth the walk.
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…
"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…
Fifteen acres of gardens in leafy Edgbaston, laid out in 1832, with four glasshouses, from tropical rainforest and subtropical to Mediterranean and a…
A chocolate-themed attraction at Cadbury's factory in Bournville, the model village built by the Cadbury family for its workers in south Birmingham.
A medieval moated manor house in the Forest of Arden that hid Catholic priests in the 1590s; three priest holes can still be seen.
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