Interesting Places and Scenic Enchantment
This category page shows a list of our posts featuring National Trust houses and gardens in England. The NT is an organisation for heritage conservation.
We visit the Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire. It is said to be one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II. During our visit, some of the cotton processing and weaving … Read more
Dunham Massey is in Altrincham, Cheshire. We were lucky with the weather as it was a hot and sunny day. The house is furnished with thousands of original items used by the inhabitants over the centuries. Visitors start in the kitchens and servants rooms. Then the trail leads upstairs to the magnificent rooms used to … Read more
We explore the art treasures on display in the North Gallery at Petworth House. Among the sculptures and paintings, we also see the oldest English terrestrial globe in existence. There are major works by the likes of Titian, van Dyck, Reynolds, Blake, Gainsborough, and JMW Turner on display at Petworth, and many of these can … Read more
Baddesley Clinton and Packwood House, in Warwickshire, are two-and-a-half miles apart by road. A traditional Christmas is the theme of the moated manor house at Baddesley Clinton. The Christmas trees are fabulous and there is a real log fire in the sitting room. It’s a 1920s Christmas at Packwood house. There is an enormous Christmas … Read more
We visit the 18th-century stately home at Hanbury. The house is decorated for a 1970s / 1980s Christmas, and it is like a trip down memory lane. Toys and games from that era were donated by the staff and volunteers at Hanbury Hall, with old favourites such as Monopoly and Mousetrap. The grand dinning table … Read more
We visit the impressive 17th-century Hall at Wimpole to see the Christmas decorations. Then we go to Wimpole’s Home Farm, where it is feeding time for the pigs. The Great Barn has been decorated for Christmas for the first time this year. Later we get a free viewing of the Christmas light trail at dusk … Read more
The video and photographs take you on a visit to Avebury Manor in Wiltshire. A partnership between the National Trust and the BBC transformed the house, creating a hands-on experience that celebrates and reflects the lives of the people who once lived there, from the Tudor times through to the 1930s when Alexander Keiller lived … Read more
The video and photographs take you on a visit to the beautiful rose garden at Anglesey Abbey. The Rose Garden was one of Lord Fairhaven’s first garden projects after purchasing the Anglesey Abbey estate unseen at auction in the 1920s. Lord Fairhaven began the process of transforming the garden into a spectacular seasonal display. It … Read more
The video and photographs show you the Dahlia Garden at Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge. 60 varieties are planted in blocks of colour, creating a rainbow effect that draws the eyes to the bend in the border and sparks your curiosity. The garden was designed in 1952, and was carefully planned to lead guests through the … Read more
Hidcote Manor Garden is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain, with its linked “garden rooms” of hedges, rare trees, shrubs, and herbaceous borders. It is a garden in the United Kingdom, located in the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. It is a National Trust property. … Read more