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Killhope, North Of England Lead Mining Museum

Killhope is a fully restored nineteenth century lead mine, where you can experience for yourself the life and work of the lead mining families of the ...

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Filed Under: County Durham Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

The Judge's Lodging

Once called ‘the most commodious and elegant apartments for a judge in all England and Wales’ (Lord Chief Justice Campbell, 1855), decay beckoned ...

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Filed Under: Powys Tagged With: Houses, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Jane Austen's House

The novelist Jane Austen is known worldwide for her popular novels describing the society of pre-industrial England. She spent the last eight years of ...

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Filed Under: Hampshire Tagged With: Houses, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Jackfield Tile Museum

One of ten fabulous museums at Ironbridge. The Jackfield Tile Museum is located on the south side of the Ironbridge Gorge and housed in the former ...

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Filed Under: Shropshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Holburne Museum

One of the country's great small museums, The Holburne has packed up its collection and is now closed to the public. A development project of ...

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Filed Under: Avon Tagged With: Art Galleries, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

The Historic Dockyard

The Historic Dockyard, Chatham is a stunning 80 acre site with historic buildings, museum galleries, historic warships and a vibrant programme of ...

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Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Attraction, Military, Museums

Highland Folk Museum

The Highland Folk Museum brings to life the domestic and working conditions of earlier Highland peoples. Visitors to this living history Museum can ...

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Filed Under: Invernessshire Tagged With: Museums, Sandford Award Winners

The Heritage Centre

The Silk Museum within the Heritage Centre follows the story of silk from its origins in China, along the silk route to Britain and its establishment ...

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Filed Under: Cheshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Hatworks, The Museum Of Hatting

Hat Works is the UK’s only museum dedicated solely to the hatting industry, hats and headwear! The museum was developed as a lottery funded ...

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Filed Under: Cheshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Hall Place And Gardens

Hall Place is a fine Grade I listed country house built in 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant and former Lord Mayor of London. The house ...

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Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Houses, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Great Cressingham School

The school building was built in 1840. It was used as a local Authority school until 1992 and was then acquired by Tom and Sally North. They have ...

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Filed Under: Norfolk Tagged With: Attraction, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Gladstone Museum

Gladstone is the only complete Victorian pottery factory from the days when coal-burning ovens made the world's finest bone china. Explore the cobbled ...

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Filed Under: Staffordshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

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