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Sandford Award Winners

The Sandford Award is an independently judged, quality assured assessment of education programmes at heritage sites, museums, archives and collections across the British Isles.

More than 350 sites - including historic houses, museums, galleries, places of worship, gardens, landscapes and collections – have received an Award since the scheme began in 1978. They include Hampton Court Palace, Brunel’s ss Great Britain in Bristol, Fota Wildlife Park in Eire, Edinburgh Castle, and Big Pit - the National Mining Museum of Wales.

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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

Hatfield House

Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, just 21 miles north of London, is a fine Jacobean House and Garden in a spectacular countryside setting. Built by ...

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Filed Under: Hertfordshire Tagged With: Houses, Sandford Award Winners

Harewood House

Visit Harewood House to soak up its rich history and enjoy the magnificent art collections on the State Floor. Step back in time Below Stairs to see ...

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Filed Under: Yorkshire Tagged With: Attraction, Houses, Sandford Award Winners

Hampton Court Palace

A truly stunning place to visit. Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London; it has ...

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Filed Under: Surrey Tagged With: Houses, 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

Goodwood Estate

Goodwood Estate is a major sport and leisure venue featuring Goodwood Racecourse, home of the Glorious Goodwood flatracing festival, which is one of ...

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Filed Under: Sussex Tagged With: Attraction, Houses, Sandford Award Winners

Goodrich Castle

Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat. The castle was begun ...

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Filed Under: Herefordshire Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage, Sandford Award Winners

Gloucester Cathedral Education Centre

This has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1300 years, since Osric, an Anglo-Saxon prince, founded a religious house here in ...

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Filed Under: Gloucestershire Tagged With: Cathedrals - Ecclesiastical, 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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