A rare surviving medieval royal hunting forest, much as it was in Norman times, with ancient pollarded oaks and hornbeams, grassy rides and a lake. Cattle graze the open plains in summer.
It's close to Stansted Airport, making it a good place for a walk before a flight. The Shell House by the lake was decorated by the Houblon family in the 18th century.
The largest country house in Cambridgeshire, with a library and chapel decorated by some of the best architects of the 18th century.
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 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 castle on the Thames founded by William the Conqueror in the 1070s, which has served as a royal palace, a prison and a place of execution.
One of the world's great museums, founded in 1753, with eight million objects covering two million years of human history.
The only house commissioned by William Morris, designer and leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, built in 1859 by his friend Philip Webb.
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