Houses & gardens in NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire, England

Spectacular half-ruined Elizabethan house and gardens.

Spencer estate and burial place of Princess Diana.

A near-perfect Queen Anne house of 1702 with a 1937 parterre by Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Home of the Brudenells since 1514, including the earl who led the Light Brigade.

Once England's largest house, finished in 1583 to lodge Elizabeth I.

An Anglo-Palladian house by James Gibbs, with borders planted by Nancy Lancaster.

Home to Britain's oldest surviving garden gnome, set in a rockery of the 1840s.

An Elizabethan garden lodge, left unfinished.

Grand Montagu house with formal water gardens.

Henry VIII and later Elizabeth I both owned this house, one of the finest in Jacobean England, now open only on pre-booked summer tours

Ten acres of terraced flower gardens, ponds and a famous bluebell wood around a 17th-century manor near Guilsborough.

A National Trust place in Northamptonshire.

A Grade II*-listed historic park and garden in Northamptonshire.