Clarke Hall is a late 17th century gentleman farmer’s house, primarily used by schools as an educational resource. Clarke Hall is known locally and nationally for its interpretative educational work with schools who use it every day in term time. The Hall holds special living history Open Days and other events specifically for the wider […]
City Museum & Art Gallery, Blaise Castle
Explore hundreds of weird and wonderful objects inside the museum that show how people used to live in the past. Gaze out of this 18th century mansion house over 400 acres of beautiful parkland and imagine that it all belongs to you and your family. Bristol at Home galleries Costume Galleries Toy Rooms Picture Room […]
City Discovery Centre – Bradwell Abbey
City Discovery Centre has been based at the ancient site of Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes since 1992. Bradwell Abbey is the site and remains of a medieval Benedictine Priory and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument Bradwell Abbey is also a non-statutory Biological Notification Site and a proposed Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Site. The […]
Chirk Castle
Completed in 1310, Chirk is the last Welsh castle from the reign of Edward I still lived in today. Features from its 700 years include the medieval tower and dungeon, 18th-century servants’ hall and 20th-century laundry. There is also a 17th-century Long Gallery and grand 18th-century state apartments, with elaborate plasterwork, Adam-style furniture, tapestries and […]
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Chiltern Open Air Museum preserves and interprets the built heritage of the Chilterns that would otherwise be lost. The Museum was founded in 1976, with the aim of rescuing threatened buildings and re-erecting them on our forty-five acre site of natural park, meadow and woodland, thereby preserving a variety of structures of historical or vernacular […]