Catherine of Aragon spent her last months of captivity here, in the manor that later became the grand house you see now, remodelled by Sir John Vanbrugh in the early 1700s. Today it’s a school, so opening is limited to a handful of days each year, when you can see the Vanbrugh state rooms and Pellegrini’s painted staircase. The village of Kimbolton sits at the gates. St Neots station is about 12km south-east.
