Neo-classical house and celebrated gardens. The exotic luxuriance of Mount Stewart’s celebrated gardens, created in the 1920s by Edith, Lady Londonderry, has helped make it one of Northern Ireland’s most popular Trust properties with all the family. Nominated as a World Heritage Site, the impressive landscape garden makes the most of the unique microclimate of […]
Moseley Old Hall
Elizabethan house, famous for its association with Charles II. The richly panelled walls of Moseley Old Hall conceal ingenious secret hiding places designed for Catholic priests. One of these cramped priest holes saved Charles II when he hid here after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, and the bed where he slept is on view. […]
Morwellam Quay
An award-winning, evocative museum and visitor centre in the heart of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site and Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Just four miles west of Tavistock the historic port, mine workings and Estate, border the beautiful River Tamar. Amidst towering cliffs and gently rolling farmland, a […]
Montacute House
Montacute House is a magnificent, glittering mansion, built in the late 16th century for Sir Edward Phelips. Renaissance highlights include elegant chimneys, carved parapets, contemporary plasterwork and heraldic glass. On walking through the grand Long Gallery, the longest of its kind in Europe, visitors can admire more than 50 of the finest Tudor and Elizabethan […]
Mellor Heritage Project
An Iron Age Hiil Settlement with a deep, inner defensive ditch, a shallower boundary ditch and several Roundhouses which was completely hidden under a flat suburban lawn. unlike may comparative sites, there had been no indication above the ground that these features had ever existed. Follow the story of the Excavation at Mellor period by […]