- Heritage

Albright Hussey Manor

The Battle Of Shrewsbury was fought on nearby fields in 1403 and Royalist troops used it as a garrison in 1741…

Consall Hall Landscape Gardens

Fifty years of amazing vision, careful planning and construction have created Consall Hall Landscape Gardens, which includes six lakes, various follies, summer houses, packhorse bridges and much more…

Blithfield Hall

Blithfield Hall (pronounced locally as Bliffield), is a privately owned Grade I listed country house in Staffordshire, England, situated some 9 miles (14 km) east of Stafford, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Uttoxeter and 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Rugeley…

Coombe Abbey Hotel

Coombe Abbey was founded in 1150 AD by Cistercian Monks, then known as the Abbey of Cumbe. It has an illustrious past; Dissolution by King Henry VIII, Private residency to royalty, involvement in the infamous Gunpowder Plot to name but a…

Ragley Hall

Ragley is the family home of the Marquess and Marchioness of Hertford and has been the seat of the Conway Seymour family since 1680. The house was not completed until the middle of the 18th century, when it was finally decorated and fully furnished…

Wood Norton Hall Hotel

Sold by the family in 1911, the estate then had a sucesssion of owners until acquired by the BBC in 1939. Established as an emergency broadcasting base, Wood Norton had become the largest broadcasting centre in Europe by the beginning of 1940 with an average output of 1,300 programmes a week…

Grafton Manor

If you go up into the eaves of Grafton Manor it is still possible to see where someone has carved the date into one of the wooden beams. The date is 1742. Who knows who did it maybe a workman, maybe it was one of the servants. Whoever it was, Grafton Manor then was a prestigious new house, built on the site of a much older house that had been tragically destroyed by fire in 1710. It was a famous house and had been the home to many families over the centuries, all fabulously wealthy and most favourites with the monarchy. Sir Humphrey Stafford was a trusted friend of Henry VI, Sir Gilbert Talbot enjoyed the favour of Henry VII and Charles Talbot who enjoyed the good opinion of no less than five monarchs, Charles II, James II, William and Mary, Anne and…

Swinton Park

The Swinton Estate is one of the largest estates in England, situated in North Yorkshire and stretching from the River Ure in Wensleydale up onto the moorland Dales. Comprising 20,000 acres, about two thirds of the land is forestry, reservoirs and farmland and one third open moorland, and there are upwards of 90 properties situated both within the charming market town of Masham and the surrounding countryside. The Estate borders The Yorkshire Dales National Park and falls within the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty…

Thornton Manor

Viscount Leverhulme (A Misplaced…

Augill Castle

The castle was built in 1837 by John Bagot Pearson, a solicitor from Kirkby Lonsdale. it was undoubtedly modelled on the much larger Lowther Castle near Penrith, sharing the same symmetry and arrangement of central tower and turrets in Victorian gothic revival style…