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Meldon Park

Meldon Park is a traditional rural estate west of Morpeth, Northumberland. Entry is free to the working kitchen garden and surrounding wild garden. The cafe and shop sell home grown produce. Meg’s walk meanders through parkland by the…

Woolhanger Manor

Woolhanger Estate is a large hill farm covering some 3000 acres, with open moorland, fields and steep coombes. It is situated in the Exmoor National Park and has some of the most spectacular panoramic views on Exmoor, with South Wales to…

Somerset House

Somerset House is a spectacular neo-classical building in the heart of London, sitting between the Strand and the River Thames. During summer months a ‘grove’ of 55 fountains dance in the courtyard, and in winter you can skate on London’s favourite ice rink. Somerset House also hosts open-air concerts and films, contemporary art and design exhibitions,…

Chelsea Physic Garden

Chelsea Physic Garden, founded in 1673, is London’s oldest botanic garden and a unique living museum. Features include Europe’s oldest pond rockery; pharmaceutical and perfumery beds; the Garden of World Medicine; a tropical plant greenhouse and over 5,000…

Titsey Place

Dating from the 16th century, the Titsey Estate is one the largest surviving historic estates in Surrey. Nestling under the North Downs, Titsey Place, with its stunning garden, lakes, woodland walks, walled kitchen garden and park offering panoramic views, and enchants visitors. Enjoy the fine family portraits, furniture, a beautiful collection of porcelain and a marvelous set of four Canaletto pictures of Venice. After visiting the mansion house and grounds,…

RHS Garden Hyde Hall

In 1955 when Dr and Mrs Robinson came to Hyde Hall there were only six trees on the top of a windswept hill and no garden. If they had known then what they soon learned, it is very doubtful that the garden would have been made! The site was cold and windy, the top of the hill was covered in gravel and the soil on…

Little Hall

One of the oldest buildings in the best preserved of the Suffolk wool towns, this 14th century house was built for the Causton family of…

Ryton Gardens

The home of UK’s leading organic growing charity - Garden Organic. Ten acres of organic grounds, comprising individual demonstration gardens showcasing organic ornamentals to fruit and veg growing, earth friendly pest and disease control, and tips on how…

Hagley Hall

Hagley Hall and Park are among the supreme achievements of eighteenth-century English architecture and landscape gardening. They remain largely the creation of one man, George, 1st Lord Lyttelton (1709-73), secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales, poet and man of letters and briefly Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before the death of his father in 1751, he began to landscape the grounds in the new ‘picturesque’ style, and between 1754 and 1760 it was he who was responsible for the building of the house as it is seen today. Many of Lord Lyttelton’s friends, Horace Walpole in particular, gave advice, but the final designs were drawn up by the gentleman-architect Sanderson Miller of Radway in Warwickshire. After the death of his first wife, Lucy Fortescue, George married Elizabeth Rich, a lady with firm views on this new project. She found little sympathy with the plans by Chute for a Gothic house, and it was largely on her recommendation that Miller was employed. He was assisted by another amateur, Thomas Prowse, and a…

Aston Hall

Aston Hall is one of Birmingham’s most treasured buildings. Redisplayed as part of the development project, Aston Hall boasts sumptuous interiors…