This prominent vantage point and strategic site was quickly recognised by the Normans, who built a huge timber fortress here by 1100 AD. Originally built by Robert de Toeni, later known as Robert of Stafford, in the Norman period, Stafford Castle has dominated the local skyline for…
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8.9 miles
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Boscobel House was built around 1632, when John Gifford of Whiteladies converted a timber‐framed farmhouse into a hunting lodge. The Gifford family were Catholics, at a time when the religion was outlawed. Tradition holds that the true purpose of Boscobel was to serve as a secret place for…
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12.1 miles
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Come and visit the secret jewel in Shropshire. Entrance in the village of Marchamley.Party bookings taken.Open: 14 ‐ 31 August…
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11.8 miles
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There has been a park and gardens at Hodnet for many hundreds of years, and their design and size has followed on from the three different sites of the houses in which the Heber‐Percy family and their ancestors have lived. Woodland walks alongside a daisy chain of…
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10 miles
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The extensive, evocative ruins of an abbey of Augustinian canons, dissolved in 1538, feature the remains of the 12th‐ and 13th‐century church and cloister buildings, surrounded by lawns and ancient yew trees. Closed 1 October ‐ 31 March.…
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8.2 miles
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This substantial red‐brick villa is typical of the many thousands that were built for the prosperous middle classes in the late Victorian period.Sunnycroft is one of the very few villas to have survived, with a mini estate and largely unaltered contents and decoration.There's lots to see and do…
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12.4 miles
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The Dorothy Clive Garden is intimate and informal. It embraces a variety of landscape features, including a superb woodland garden, an alpine scree, gravel garden and many fine mixed borders.Visitors will discover the great variety of form and colour and the fine views of the surrounding hilly countryside.…
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8 miles
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Over 1000 acres of formal gardens, enchanting woodland, idyllic lakes and follies make up the rich tapestry of this magnificant historic park. The centrepiece is the House, withits collection of paintings, tapestries, procelain and fine furniture. With an Adventure Playground, Miniature Railway and Animal Centre, the…
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10.4 miles
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Built on the grounds of a medieval nunnery, it was to White Ladies that Charles II then a Prince was first taken, after fleeing from Worcester. He arrived at White Ladies Priory on Thursday 4th September 1651 after riding throughout the night and was admitted by a servant…
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12.9 miles
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A delightful 20th Century garden around a 16th Century house not open. The formal design creates many separate smaller gardens each with its own design and planting. The garden is complemented by significant collections of tender salvias, clematis, crocosmias and many other rare and desirable perennials.…
Distance:
9.2 miles
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