Historic sites

Dunham Massey

United Kingdom Trafford Bowdon

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

A Georgian house and deer park on the edge of Manchester, home of the Earls of Stamford, with a house that was a military hospital in the First World War. The large winter garden is one of the best in Britain.


Fallow deer wander the park, and there's a working Elizabethan watermill. It's easy to reach by tram and bus.

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