Places to explore in RutlandEngland · East Midlands

In England's smallest county, this vast reservoir is a birdwatching and sailing centre where ospreys were reintroduced.

A living ironstone-quarry railway museum near Cottesmore, with working steam and diesel locomotives over 19 acres.

A rare circular turf labyrinth on Wing's green, 40 feet across and thought to be medieval in origin.

A tranquil fishing and birdwatching reservoir below Stoke Dry, once used by the Dambusters for practice runs.

Rutland's county town, where a Norman great hall keeps a wall of 200-odd ceremonial horseshoes forfeited by visiting peers.

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Rutland Water's iconic half-drowned church, saved on a raised embankment and reached by causeway; a museum inside.

Oakham's free museum of rural life, from an ice-age bison horn to farm wagons, in a Georgian riding school.

Long-celebrated Victorian country-house hotel on a peninsula above Rutland Water.

A rare medieval wing of the Bishops of Lincoln's palace, later almshouses; an English Heritage site with fine ceilings.

Boston to Abbotsbury down the limestone belt — 290 miles waymarked in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

467 km · spans 10 counties

Rutland's chocolate-box village, its 300-year-old stone cottages and roses framing a perfectly kept green.

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A honey-stone village strung along one broad street, home to the medieval Bede House and a music-and-arts church.

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