Over 3,800 acres of parkland, woods and heath in Sherwood Forest, once the estate of the Dukes of Newcastle. The house was demolished in 1938, but its Gothic Revival chapel, a walled kitchen garden and the long lake remain.
Clumber has the longest avenue of lime trees in Europe and is good for walking, cycling (bikes for hire) and picnics.
"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…
A Palladian mansion with some of the finest interiors by Robert Adam, built in the 1760s for the Curzon family.
A perfect example of a Restoration country house, built in the 1680s for the Brownlow family, with rooms of fine plasterwork, carvings and silver.
Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield, with gritstone edges, moorland and limestone dales.
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…
The "un-stately home": a Baroque mansion where the reclusive Harpur Crewe family hoarded everything and changed little for over a century.
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