Part of the ancient forest of Charnwood, Ulverscroft is especially beautiful during the spring bluebell season. Heathland and woodland habitats.

This is one of the few churches built between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Restoration period.

Stanford Hall, built in the 1690s for Sir Roger Cave, is still home to his descendants and is one of the most exquisite examples of the architecture of the period.

This remarkable castle, built on the instruction of William the Conqueror, has been my family's home for 450 years. Prior to the Watson's ownership the Castle was held by the crown. There are very few other homes that have been continuously occupied for nearly 1000...

The gardens, like the house, are due largely to Sir Roger Newdigate, and are in the picturesque manner prevalent in the second half of the eighteenth century, when there was a tendency to obliterate the formal planting fashionable at the beginning of the century and...

Melbourne Hall as it stands today shows what Sir John's descendants have made of it. The family surnam has changed three times due to inheritance via the female line, the full history will be told within the tour, as well as being fully documented in the souvenir guide.

country house and estate preserved in 20th-century decline. A place poised somewhere between gentle neglect and downright dereliction, telling the tale af an eccentric family who amassed a huge collection of hidden treasures. The house has been little restored,...

Set beside the church of the picturesque ironstone village of Lyddington, Lyddington Bede House originated as the medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln. By 1600 it had passed to Sir Thomas Cecil, son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister, who...

Cottesbrooke is a wonderful Queen Anne house dating from 1702, set in delightful award winning gardens in rural Northamptonshire.The Hall is the much loved family home of the Macdonald-Buchanan family and lived in every day. With some exceptional family portraits...

Set in 30 acres of tranquil parkland and gardens beyond the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont Hall is Nottingham's best-kept secret. Who would have known that this magnificient private house is only three miles from Trent Bridge and 15 minutes from...