'By an unlikely miracle,' wrote the architectural historian Mark
Girouard, 'the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as
an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of
Elizabethan chivalry and romance.'
Dominating the countryside...
This is one of the most magnificent gardens in England, yet one of
the least well known. Unlike 'Capability' Brown's natural landscape
styling, favoured during the late 18th century, Wrest Park's formal
gardens provide a fascinating history of gardening...
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I and mother
of his 14 children, died at Harby in Nottinghamshire. The places
where her body rested on the journey south to its tomb in
Westminster Abbey were marked by stone crosses. The...