Sandford Award Winner in 2007. King Henry VIII gave Walden Abbey to Sir Thomas Audley, who transformed it into his mansion, Audley End. Despite ups ...
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.
Attingham Park
Sandford Award Winner in 2002 and 2007. Attingham Park, built in 1785 to the design of George Steuart with alterations by John Nash, was in ...
Aston Hall
Aston Hall is situated near the M6 to the north of Birmingham centre and won Sandford Awards in 1993, 1998, 2003. One of England’s finest Jacobean ...
Apsley House
A Sandford Award Winner in 2009. Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington and his descendants, stands right in the heart of London at Hyde ...
The Argory
A Sandford Award Winner in 1995, 2001, 2006. Built in the 1820s, this handsome Irish gentry house is surrounded by its 130-hectare (320-acre) wooded ...
Alnwick Castle
A Sandford Award Winner in 2000 Alnwick Castle is the second largest inhabited castle in England, and has been the home of the Percys, Earls and Dukes ...
Orford Castle
The unique polygonal towerkeep of Orford Castle stands beside the pretty town and former port which Henry II also developed here in the 1160s. His aim ...