An eccentric Italianate house with a huge central rotunda, built by the 4th Earl of Bristol, also the Bishop of Derry, to hold the art he collected on his travels. Inside are paintings by Titian and Gainsborough and a large collection of Georgian silver; the servants' basement shows life below stairs in the 1930s.
The Italianate garden and woodland walks in the park are lovely all year.
One of Europe's most important wetlands and the National Trust's oldest nature reserve, bought in 1899.
A Jacobean house on the site of an Augustinian priory, filled with the art collection of Lord Fairhaven, who also laid out the large gardens with ave…
A masterpiece of late Gothic architecture, built between 1446 and 1515, with the largest fan-vaulted ceiling in the world and magnificent stained gla…
A moated manor house built in 1482 by the Bedingfeld family, who still live here.
The Anglo-Saxon royal burial ground where, in 1939, a great ship burial was found under a mound, full of treasures, among them a magnificent iron hel…
The largest country house in Cambridgeshire, with a library and chapel decorated by some of the best architects of the 18th century.
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