Houses & gardens in StaffordshireStaffordshire, England

Fantastical Victorian world garden, Egypt and China.

Grand estate with mysterious monuments and follies.

Restored troglodyte dwellings carved into the sandstone of Kinver Edge, the last inhabited rock houses in England, lived in until the 1960s.

150-acre living memorial by the Trent with 25,000 trees and hundreds of monuments, the nation's year-round place of remembrance.

Italian gardens and lake by a lost mansion.

A 17th-century house in Capability Brown parkland, hung with Van Dyck and Stubbs.

Intimate hillside garden on the Shropshire border with a quarry waterfall, laburnum arch and rhododendron woodland, made from 1940 as a series of walks for its namesake.

Held by the Giffard family since 1178, with a Capability Brown park and Soane interiors.

An 18th-century landscape of follies and cascades advised by the poet William Shenstone.

Almost 5,000 German and Austrian war dead beneath granite headstones set among purple heather.

A Victorian municipal park by Thomas Mawson, opened in 1897 with a lake and bandstand.

The Potteries' first public park, a Jubilee gift of 1887.

A National Trust place in Staffordshire.