Houses & gardens in LincolnshireLincolnshire, England

Modest limestone farmhouse where Isaac Newton was born and, under its apple tree, worked out gravity during the plague years.

One of the best-preserved medieval manor houses in England, with a great hall and vast original kitchen in the heart of Gainsborough.

Lincoln's first public park, laid out by Edward Milner in the 1870s, watched by a stone lion.

A Regency mansion by Robert Smirke in a 300-acre country park near Scunthorpe, with a walled Victorian kitchen garden, deer and woodland walks.

A merchant's house of 1451, its five acres holding a yew walk planted in the 1720s.

Restoration-era house, the perfect English country seat.

Twelve acres of restored terraces, meadows and famous sweet peas around a lost Grantham hall, revived from wartime dereliction.

A red-brick William-and-Mary house of 1700, Tennyson's 'haunt of ancient peace'.

Twenty-five acres of landscaped show gardens at Spalding, heir to the town's tulip-parade heritage and ablaze with spring bulbs.

A Victorian park of 1883 keeping its original avenue, bandstand and iron gates.

A National Trust place in Lincolnshire.