Grand Jacobean palace in Capability Brown parkland.
Open to visitorscheck opening times and admission before you go
Audley End began as one of the grandest Jacobean mansions in England, built on the site of a dissolved abbey and later trimmed to the still-vast house you see today. Capability Brown reshaped the surrounding parkland in the 1760s, and the grounds hold a formal parterre, a Victorian walled kitchen garden worked organically, and riverside walks. English Heritage runs it, with an admission charge; members go free. Audley End station is about 2km south, near Saffron Walden and its own Bridge End Garden.
