Houses & gardens

The Royal Horticultural Society's flagship garden, its trial fields, glasshouse and mixed borders spread across 240 acres by the Wey.

Surrey

Grand Jacobean palace in Capability Brown parkland.

Essex

Elizabethan prodigy house, more glass than wall.

Derbyshire

Palladian mansion and moorland deer park.

Cheshire

Queen Victoria's Italianate seaside palace.

Isle of Wight

London's largest royal park, roamed by red and fallow deer.

London

Neoclassical mansion, gardens and vast deer park.

Cheshire

Spectacular ruined mansion with the Perseus fountain.

Worcestershire

Whitewashed Atholl seat with the walled Hercules Garden, deer park and Diana's Grove of tall conifers.

Perth and Kinross

Terraced garden with its famous laburnum arch.

Conwy

Robert Adam clifftop mansion set in a 260-hectare country park of walled gardens, woodland and shore on the Ayrshire coast.

South Ayrshire

The monarch's official residence in Scotland, at the foot of the Royal Mile, with Mary, Queen of Scots' rooms and the ruined abbey beside it.

Edinburgh

Clough Williams-Ellis's Italianate coastal village and subtropical woodland gardens on the Dwyryd estuary.

Gwynedd

Crowning place of Scottish kings, a Gothic palace near Perth with parkland, a pinetum and a famous beech maze.

Perth and Kinross

Fantastical Victorian world garden, Egypt and China.

Staffordshire

The monarch's London palace, its State Rooms open each summer.

London

Turreted Elizabethan prodigy house near Stamford.

Cambridgeshire

Baroque palace with dome, lakes and follies.

North Yorkshire

Oxford's grandest college, with Tom Tower and its own cathedral.

Oxfordshire

Italianate mansion above grand Thames-side gardens.

Buckinghamshire

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

London

Henry VIII's Thames-side palace, with Wren's baroque wing and the maze.

London

Grand house with Capability Brown parkland.

West Yorkshire

London's great royal park of the Serpentine and Speakers' Corner.

London

World Heritage botanic garden of the Palm House and the Pagoda.

London

Soaring fan-vaulted Gothic seen over the Backs.

Cambridgeshire

Elizabethan house with Britain's first safari park.

Wiltshire

The 'lost' Victorian gardens, rediscovered and restored.

Cornwall

Golden-stone Elizabethan showpiece with long gallery.

Somerset

Lord Byron's gothic priory-turned-mansion and lakes.

Nottinghamshire

Grand mansion and Turner's deer-park landscape.

West Sussex

Vast medieval castle with towers and deer park.

County Durham

The royal family's country retreat and gardens.

Norfolk

Vita Sackville-West's famous romantic garden rooms.

Kent

Palladian landscape garden of lake and temples.

Wiltshire

Sublime Georgian landscape garden of temples and lakes.

Buckinghamshire

Vast Cistercian ruin in a water garden.

North Yorkshire

Nelson's Column and the National Gallery at the heart of London.

London

Rothschild French Renaissance chateau and gardens.

Buckinghamshire

Flamboyant Elizabethan hall in a deer park.

Nottinghamshire

Lutyens's granite castle above Teign Gorge.

Devon

Walled and formal gardens around Sir Walter Scott's romantic riverside home on the Tweed.

Scottish Borders

Fairytale French-style castle above the sea near Golspie, with formal parterres modelled on Versailles and daily falconry.

Highland

Restored formal garden and the world's oldest royal (real) tennis court behind the Stuart hunting palace.

Fife

Gloriously wonky moated Tudor timber-framed house.

Cheshire

Grand Regency mansion in a Repton deer park.

Shropshire

Fairytale Regency castle over the Vale of Belvoir.

Leicestershire

Baroque palace, Churchill's birthplace, Capability Brown park.

Oxfordshire