Historic sites

Croome

United Kingdom Worcestershire Eckington

Croome
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Capability Brown's first complete landscape, made from marshland for the 6th Earl of Coventry in the 1750s, around a Palladian house, the first he designed. The parkland is dotted with temples, follies and a church.


During the Second World War, a secret airbase on the estate trained bomber crews; the RAF Defford Museum tells its story in the old buildings.

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Food and drink

King Charles House, Worcester

Worcester, Worcestershire

A Grade II* listed timber-framed house built in 1577, now a pub and restaurant.

Historic sites

Snowshill Manor

Blockley, Gloucestershire

A Cotswold manor filled with the extraordinary collection of the architect and craftsman Charles Wade, who gathered over 20,000 objects: Japanese sam…

Natural features

Hidcote

Mickleton, Gloucestershire

One of England's most influential gardens, created in the early 1900s by the American horticulturist Lawrence Johnston.

Historic sites

Charlecote Park

Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwickshire

A Tudor house of red brick beside the River Avon, home to the Lucy family for over 900 years.

Attractions

Cadbury World, Bournville

Birmingham

A chocolate-themed attraction at Cadbury's factory in Bournville, the model village built by the Cadbury family for its workers in south Birmingham.