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Hinchingbrooke House

Hinchingbrooke house is a Tudor country house built around an early 13th century nunnery. It was given by Henry VIII to Richard Cromwell in 1538 at the time of the Dissolution. Queen Elizabeth I came here, King James I was a regular visitor and Oliver Cromwell played here as a child. The next owners, the Montagu family, soon to become the Earls of Sandwich, also played an important part in British history and the House remained their ancestral home the 1960’s…

Beamish Museum

Beamish, the multi award winning Living Museum of the North tells the story of the people of North East England in Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian times. Dogs…

Cambridge and County Folk Museum

Cambridge and County Folk Museum is a place to explore the life and times of Cambridge people in this friendly social history museum. Housed in the former White House Inn the Folk Museum was set up in 1936 by leading members of the town and university with the aim to interest the ordinary citizen in aspects of local social life which were fast disappearing in Cambridgeshire, an ethos which is still held today…

Church of Christ the Consoler

With its colourful and vibrant interior, this Victorian church seems the very celebration of life, yet it stands as a testament to tragedy…

Church of St Michael & All Angels

This 15th-century church stands in the grounds of Thornton House, which is now a school. It contains many wonderful treasures including an outstanding brass with depictions of sixteen kneeling children and the 15th-century life-sized alabaster tomb figures of John Barton and his wife, as well as box pews, a two-decker pulpit and the squire’s pew…

St Swithun's Church

The town centre church of St Swithun, rebuilt in 1734 is an elegant, perfectly preserved early Georgian gem…

Whitcombe Church

This lovely Medieval church looks like a vision from a Thomas Hardy novel…

Withcote Chapel

This delightful early 16th-century chapel stands in wooded countryside near a Georgian manor…

Eye Castle

Eye Castle is a motte and bailey medieval castle with a prominent Victorian addition in the town of Eye, Suffolk. Built shortly after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the castle was sacked and largely destroyed in 1265. Sir Edward Kerrison built a stone house on the motte in 1844: the house later decayed into ruin, becoming known as Kerrison’s Folly in subsequent years…

Strangers' Hall

Explore this magnificent Tudorhouse - one of Norwich’s mostloved buildings. Stroll through the maze of rooms, enriched withtextiles and period furniture. Letour expertsbring Tudorand Stuarttimes to life…