The Tor at Dunster has been home to a castle for more than 1000 years. During Saxon times, the spectacular hilltop location served as a frontier fortress against Celtic and Viking raiders. It is recorded in the Domesday Book as being owned by the Saxon Aelfric before 1066. Following the Battle of Hastings, William the […]
Dunham Massey Hall
Mansion with important collections and fascinating ‘below stairs’ area, set in a large country estate and deer park, with a rich and varied garden. Finest collection of Huguenot silver in Britain Ancient herd of fallow deer in a stunning 101-hectare (250-acre) park Scandal and romance retold in fascinating guided tours One of the North West’s […]
Culzean Castle
What you see at Culzean Castle today is a result of many years of careful restoration by the National Trust for Scotland, that has united the different stages of Culzean’s aesthetic history. It reflects the different stages of Culzean’s past, from Robert Adam’s additions to the medieval tower house, to its heyday as one of […]
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre
Culloden was the last hand-to-hand battle fought on British soil. Part of a wider European religious and political conflict, the short but bloody fight changed the course of history. Today the causes and consequences of the Forty-Five are still hotly debated. Since the mid-nineteenth century the battlefield has been a place of pilgrimage for people […]
Crathes Castle
One of the most beautiful and best preserved castles in Scotland occupied by the Burnetts of Leys for over 350 years and set against a magnificent garden with its world-renowned June border. Winner of Sandford Award 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007.