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Althorp House
Althorp House
Explore Althorp House  and stroll through the park and relax in the beautiful gardens, open during July and August .   Start with a relaxing walk down a tree lined avenue to the...
Anglesey Abbey Gardens & Lode Mill
Anglesey Abbey Gardens & Lode Mill
Anglesey Abbey Gardens and Lode Mill is a Jacobean-style country house with a collection of treasures, set in fine formal and informal gardens with a working water mill.   Lord...
Audley End House & Gardens
Audley End House & Gardens
Sir Thomas Audley was given the lands of Walden Abbey by Henry VIII, and adapted the abbey buildings as his mansion. His grandson Thomas, Suffolk's first Earl , rebuilt this mansion between 1610 and...
Barnsdale Gardens
Barnsdale Gardens
Barnsdale Gardens is familiar to millions of BBC 2 viewers as the home of Gardener's World. Barnsdale comprises 37 individual gardens and features incorporated into one eight acre garden. The...
Buckden Towers
Buckden Towers
Buckden Towers (formerly Buckden Palace) was a resting place and/or home to successive Bishops of Lincoln from the 12th century to 1842.  The location was important as many were involved in...
Burghley House & Gardens
Burghley House & Gardens
Burghley House & Gardens gives a glimpse of the way great houses have been furnished and inhabited from the days of Queen Elizabeth 1 through the 17th and 18th centuries, to the present...
Bushmead Priory
Bushmead Priory
Bushmead Priory is a rare suvival of the complete refectory of an Augustinian Priory, with fine timber rood and notable 14th century wall painting.  Viewing Bushmead Priory is through ...
Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
Cambridge University Botanic Garden opened to the public in 1846, and develops and displays over 8,000 different plant species in 40 beautiful landscaped acres.   Professor John Stevens...
Elton Hall
Elton Hall
Elton Hall has a fine collection of treasures, furniture and paintings from the 15th century.  Sir Peter Proby was granted land and property at Elton by Queen Elizabeth I, and his grandson...
Hilton Turf Maze
Hilton Turf Maze
Hilton Turf Maze is situated on the village green at Hilton , near Huntingdon , and is an adapted 'Chartres' design, 55 feet in diameter, with a pillar in the centre. One of only eight such turf...
Hinchingbrooke Country Park
Hinchingbrooke Country Park
Hinchingbrooke Country Park is part of the original Hinchingbrooke Estate and covers approximately 170 acres including lakes, meadows and woods and grassland.    A former home to...
Hinxton Mill
Hinxton Mill
Hinxton Mill is a 17th century watermill with an adjoining 18th century cottage.   The Cambridge Preservation Society have brought the mill back into working order and the restoration was...
Houghton Mill
Houghton Mill
Houghton Mill is a working watermill on an island in the Great Ouse since AD 974 and you can discover how flour is made at this National Trust property.  In its heyday it ran 10...
Kentwell Hall
Kentwell Hall
Kentwell Hall is an impressive Tudor mansion set just outside the Cambridgeshire borders.  Over 500 years old, Kentwell Hall is definetly a family home, not a stately home.  You get...
Longthorpe Tower
Longthorpe Tower
Longthorpe Tower in Peterborough is the finest example of 14th centry domestic wall paintings in Northern Europe. Longthorpe Tower  displays one of the most complete and important sets of...
Lyveden New Bield
Lyveden New Bield
Lyveden New Bield is a charming example of an enchanting Elizabethan Lodge and moated garden.  It has one of the oldest water garden layouts in Britain with spiral mounts, terraces and...
Milton Country Park
Milton Country Park
Originally a quarry for the extraction of sand and gravel, Milton Country Park near Cambridge has grown from the ensuing reclamation of the land by nature.  Work started to shape the Milton...
Moggerhanger Park
Moggerhanger Park
Moggerhanger House  is a Georgian Grade 1 listed building displaying considerable architectural interest. Designed by Sir John Soane, it is recognised as the most complete, surviving...
Oliver Cromwell's House
Oliver Cromwell's House
Visit the 17th century family home of Oliver Cromwell and its famous haunted bedroom.   Oliver Cromwell lived in this house in Ely for approximately 10 years, which has now...
Peakirk Waterfowl Gardens
Peakirk Waterfowl Gardens
Peakirk Waterfowl Park is set in 20 acres of gardens and waterways that are home to hundreds of birds from all over the world.  Last count there were approxiamtely 140 species of birds ...
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