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Built in the 14th century as a lightly-fortified residence, Old Wardour Castle is a brilliant example of mixing defensive structures with a home built for entertaining. Pupils can explore the grotto, castle rooms, and climb to the top for amazing views over the Wiltshire countryside.
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The distinctive and highly decorative gatehouse-tower of a castle built by the wealthy Sir William Hylton, shortly before 1400. Originally containing four floors of self-contained family.
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Weeding was back-breaking, monotonous and poorly paid - a job often left to women or boys - but vital to the upkeep of the gardens in grand country houses. In this article we exploring the often forgotten contribution of weeding women to our historic gardens.
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Whether your passion is for a particular place or for all our historic sites, your support will help care for the buildings, landscapes and objects that tell the story of England.
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This stunning mansion, set in beautifully restored gardens gives you a chance to step into the past. Originally founded by a family who may have made their fortune in the slave trade and then gradually falling into disrepair as agricultural and mining income fell and economic depression and death duties after the Second World War minimised the family’s ability to invest in it; this house brilliantly reflects changing times in Britain’s history.
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Guy Gibson, an RAF pilot who led the ‘Dambusters’ raid, is commemorated on a blue plaque, erected in 2006 by English Heritage, at 32 Aberdeen Place, St John's Wood, London, NW8 8JR.
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Guy Gibson, an RAF pilot who led the ‘Dambusters’ raid, is commemorated on a blue plaque at 32 Aberdeen Place, St John's Wood.
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A visit to Roche Abbey can help students appreciate how Medieval monastic settlements worked, the effects of Tudor inspired religious changes and how abbeys became romantic ruins to enhance country estates in the 1800s.
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Founded soon after 1066 by William Peveril and overlooking Hope Valley and Cave Dale, Peveril Castle is a fantastic and historically important site for school children to explore.
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Known as ‘The Grandparent of Skyscrapers’, Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings is an internationally important historical site. It is the multi-storied iron-framed building in the world, first used as a Mill and then a Maltings, it was operational until the 1980s.