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Registered parks and gardens of special interest. 53 in the Albion Guide.
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
Northamptonshire
A merchant's house of 1451, its five acres holding a yew walk planted in the 1720s.
Lincolnshire
A ridge-top house of 1700 built with Christopher Wren's advice, above Rutland Water.
Rutland
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.
A medieval deer park with a gabled Elizabethan ruin and a lakeside mock-battle folly.
Home to Britain's oldest surviving garden gnome, set in a rockery of the 1840s.
Lincoln's first public park, laid out by Edward Milner in the 1870s, watched by a stone lion.
A Restoration mansion whose panelled Long Gallery played Pemberley in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice.
Derbyshire
A private Dukeries estate famous for a reclusive duke's warren of Victorian tunnels.
Nottinghamshire
An Elizabethan diplomat's mansion in Essex with rare wall paintings, seen today only on pre-booked guided tours
Essex
England's tallest Tudor gatehouse in brick.
Moated Tudor manor with a gatehouse tower.
Norfolk
A Georgian merchant's townhouse hiding a two-acre Victorian garden and orangery.
Cambridgeshire
A Jacobean house of 1600 linked to Robert Smythson, home to a renowned textiles collection.
Lancashire
A Grade II-listed historic park and garden in Lancashire.
William Wordsworth's home for his last 37 years, with the garden he laid out.
Cumbria
A medieval pele tower with the National Trust's largest limestone rock garden and a national fern collection.
The Worsley family's grand 18th-century house on the Isle of Wight, now a roofless shell after scandal, sale and a wartime mine
Isle of Wight
Palladian mansion in Thames-side parkland.
Berkshire
Kipling's Jacobean house and mill garden.
East Sussex
The national conifer collection, laced with waymarked trails and a treetop cycle route.
Kent
A Georgian mansion with a walled garden, pinetum and a noted collection of clocks.
A Victorian garden known for its towering clipped yew cloud hedges.
A terraced 1850s garden of stone staircases below an Elizabethan house.
A Victorian public park of lakes and lawns in a chalk valley near Dover.
William Morris's Tudor riverside retreat.
Oxfordshire
The timber-framed cottage where John Milton finished Paradise Lost, escaping the plague.
Buckinghamshire
Edwardian terraced gardens with a Japanese rock garden and a hillside vineyard.
A hillside garden of rhododendrons and azaleas around a walled rose garden.
George IV’s Indian-style seaside palace.
A Tudor manor whose courtyard carries statues of Henry VIII and his children.
Devon
Reckoned Cornwall's oldest garden, with a six-acre meadow that turns blue with bluebells.
Cornwall
Valley garden with famous cherry-laurel maze.
Agatha Christie's riverside holiday home and garden.
Home to the largest rose in England, a hillside garden made by three generations of women.
Gloucestershire
Grand house with art and a beech avenue.
Dorset
Where Fox Talbot made the world's oldest surviving photographic negative in 1835.
Wiltshire
The 'lost' Victorian gardens, rediscovered and restored.
Edwardian hillside terraces framing Wells Cathedral and the Vale of Avalon below.
Somerset
A Tudor hunting lodge on the Cotswold escarpment, later remodelled into a country house.
A grey Tudor manor with a church and clipped yew terraces in the Cotswolds.
A small Arts and Crafts garden of yew-clipped rooms and bold, painterly colour schemes.
A subtropical ravine garden running down to the Helford.
The hunting lodge where Charles II hid after Worcester, with the Royal Oak descendant in its field.
Shropshire
A red-brick William-and-Mary house of 1706 with formal gardens by George London.
Worcestershire
The Bishops of Worcester's moated palace for over a thousand years, now a county museum.
Sixty acres of water gardens falling to a chain of pools below a neo-Elizabethan mansion.
Arts-and-Crafts house rich in Pre-Raphaelite art.
West Midlands
A red-brick Baroque mansion of 1716, hung with 18th-century portraits from the National Portrait Gallery.
York
A 1680s stone manor with an attic collection of miniature furnished rooms.
Harome
An arboretum of 85 acres holding five national plant collections and champion trees.
Masham
Charles Darwin's home for forty years, where he wrote On the Origin of Species.
Shoreham
