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What is the the best stately home that you have visited?
I really enjoy going to National Trust properties and other stately homes in general. Enjoy both the architecture and looking around inside and the gardens. The best I have seen is Cragside - for those of you who haven't been have a look at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cragside It is a fascinating place!
Public Comments
- Tatton Park over 40 years ago the flowers were fantastic
- looks lush!
- giant of place hundreds of en suit rooms in glasgow,aka bar-l
- Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries&Galloway, Scotland home of the Duke of Bucchleugh. Also Floors Castle, Kelso, Scotland home of Duke of Roxburgh.
- Buck Palace
- Warwick Castle and Chatsworth
- I'd love to go to Cragside *jealous*. Mines is dead boringly predictable - Chatsworth. The house itself is fab with just so many points of real interest. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/506526417_80b1438676.jpg?v=0- the trompe l'oeil violin http://www.denyerec.co.uk/images/1062930507DSCF0076_p.jpg - this in reality is amazing. But the best bit is the grounds. It felt like Narnia. The metal willow fouintain-http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/4906808_c87584d55f.jpg?v=0 unbelievably made in 1693. Also the best food I've ever eaten at any of these gaffes...lol.
- i love tatton park, the gardens are fantastic. and it's not somewhere the kids get bored too, some of the places they do.
- It's Cotehele and Lanhydrock for me...both in the care of the National Trust http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-cotehele http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-lanhydrock/
- I love many of them but I have a real soft spot for Castle Howard. http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/metadot/index.pl I also love Burton Agness Hall http://www.chromavision.co.uk/yt/burtonagnes.htm And of course, I love Chatsworth... What an amazing place... http://www.chatsworth.org/ There are so many beautiful houses and estates in this country... What about Leeds Castle, Eileen Donnan Castle...
- Haddon Hall is one of my favourite places. It's homely, magnificent, lived-in, beautiful and has a wonderful Long Gallery panelled in silver oak. http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/visits/haddon.php http://www.haddonhall.co.uk/ http://www.aboutbritain.com/HaddonHall.htm Hardwick Hall is a superb Elizabethan house: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hardwickhall/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwick_Hall For something older and grander - Leeds Castle (which is in Kent, not Leeds!): http://www.leeds-castle.com/goto.php?ref=y&sess=u0|p0|n0|c0|s0|g1|d0& These are some of my favourite places, among so many.
- The best, the very best I have ever been to is not really a stately home but a castle. It is Dunrobin castle in Scotland. I chose this one because it has been a home and when I saw it I wanted to live there too!!!!! It has been the home of the Dukes of Sutherland over generations and houses collections of trophies and treasures brought back from their various travels around the world. It has fabulous gardens that reach right down to the sea, Displays of porcelain brought from across Europe are on display and there is a fantastic museum. The most riveting of the collections is the taxidermy of animals caught by the dukes on their very many hunting expeditions around the world. I can appreciate that it is not to every ones taste, but to see a real giraffes head complete with it's neck, mounted and preserved is truly astonishing!!!. http://www.dunrobincastle.co.uk/the-castle/museum.htm Another place I must mention is the Chateau Chambord in Loire valley in France. Originally built by King Francois I as a pleasure palace, it has the most intriguing double helix staircase which was designed and built by Leonardo da Vinci. I spent ages going up and down it and still could not fathom it out!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Chambord EDIT, I have not been to Cragside, but it looks lovely. The little house on the top would suit me fine as a home!!!
