A long shingle spit on the north Norfolk coast, home to England's largest colony of grey seals; around 4,000 pups are born here each winter. Common seals also lie on the sandbanks, along with terns and other seabirds in summer.
The easiest way to see the seals is on a boat trip from Morston Quay or Blakeney. In winter, the National Trust sets up a viewing area at the point.
A landscape park designed by Humphry Repton, who called it his favourite work, with a huge collection of rhododendrons and azaleas that flower in May…
A Jacobean house of red brick framed by yew hedges, said to stand on the site of the home of Anne Boleyn's family, and to be visited by her ghost eve…
A moated manor house built in 1482 by the Bedingfeld family, who still live here.
A towering red-brick castle built in the 1430s for Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England, rising high above the flat Lincolnshire fens.
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 o…
One of Europe's most important wetlands and the National Trust's oldest nature reserve, bought in 1899.
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