Houses & gardens in WorcestershireWorcestershire, England

Spectacular ruined mansion with the Perseus fountain.

Capability Brown's first landscape and mansion.

The Bishops of Worcester's moated palace for over a thousand years, now a county museum.

The brick cottage where Edward Elgar was born, now a museum in a quiet garden at Lower Broadheath.

A moated Tudor manor that Waugh made the model for Brideshead Revisited.

Berkeley family gardens where the Willmott sisters' peonies still flower each May and June.

One of Britain's oldest arboretums on the bank of the Severn, with 300-plus tree species and Britain's longest laburnum arch.

A pink sandstone Palladian house by Sanderson Miller, set in a 350-acre deer park.

A red-brick William-and-Mary house of 1706 with formal gardens by George London.

A garden of rills and ponds below Bredon Hill, behind a 1740 Georgian house.

A National Trust place in Worcestershire.

A National Trust place in Worcestershire.