Bury Art Museum is a public museum and art gallery in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, northern England, owned by Bury Council.[1] Formerly known as Bury Museum and Art Gallery, it was renamed Bury Art Museum in 2011. The museum is home to the Wrigley Collection, an assemblage of over two hundred oil paintings, …
Prior to the 1066 Norman conquest, the castle was held by Sir John de Mitford, whose only daughter and heiress, Sybilla Mitford, was given in marriage by William the Conqueror to the Norman knight, Richard Bertram.[3] In the late 11th century, it was an earthwork fortress of the Bertram family, and of record as William …
Shugborough Hall is a stately home near Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England. The hall is situated on the edge of Cannock Chase, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Stafford. The estate was owned by the Bishops of Lichfield until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, upon which it passed through several hands before being purchased in …
Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the large village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds (after Cleeve Hill). Broadway Tower’s base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high. The “Saxon” tower was the …
Mangotsfield railway station was a railway station on the Midland Railway route between Bristol and Birmingham, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) north-east of Bristol Temple Meads and 82 miles (132 km) from Birmingham New Street, serving what is now the Bristol suburb of Mangotsfield. The station was opened in 1845 by the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, …
Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south west of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset.[1][2] Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age. The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the site consists of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and bank barrow. In …
The imposing ruins of Peveril Castle stand high above the pretty village of Castleton in the heart of Derbyshire’s Peak District. Mentioned in the Domesday survey, Peveril Castle is one of England’s earliest Norman fortresses. The keep was built by Henry II in 1176. A climb to the castle at the top of the hill …
Everton Water Tower is a water tower situated on Margaret Street in Everton, Liverpool. Now surrounded by a modern housing estate it is a Grade II listed building. The water tower is a well-known landmark dating from 1857 and can be seen from most of Liverpool standing at the top of Everton brow. Designed by …
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry. Both Barry’s buildings are listed. …
Harwich Redoubt is a circular fort built in 1808 to defend the port of Harwich, Essex from Napoleonic invasion. The Harwich Society opens it to the public. The Redoubt was built between 1808 and 1810 to protect the port of Harwich against the threat of Napoleonic invasion. It was part of the scheme that included …
Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the 7th century and enlarged in the 10th. It was destroyed by a major fire in 1184, but subsequently rebuilt and by the 14th …
Glandyfi Castle is a Grade 2 listed Regency gothic revival castle set high above the Dyfi estuary with dramatic views of the estuary and sea beyond. On the edge of the Welsh Biosphere and overlooking the RSPB reserve, the views from the front are of the estuary and the mountains of Snowdonia. At the back …
The well is now, sadly, capped off with an inscribed stone that recalls ST HELEN?S WELL.? The well originally stood inside a rather nice little wellhouse with a pyramid-shaped, overlapping roof, with railings running around it.? It was renowned for its icy waters which were especially good for people suffering from rheumatism, sprains, bruising and, …
Loseley Park is a large Tudor manor house with later additions and modifications 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Guildford, Surrey, England in Artington close to the hamlet of Littleton. The estate was acquired by the direct ancestors of the current owners, the More-Molyneux, at the beginning of the 16th century. The house built for …
Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of ?40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright. The gallery which opened in …
Take a stroll along the muddy banks of the Oglet shore from Liverpool John Lennon Airport towards Hale Head Lighthouse. There’s plenty to explore for little pirates wanting to have a treasure hunt and watch out for some amazing wildlife to spot in the area too. The shore of the River Mersey off Dungeon Lane, …
Leeds Museums and Galleries is a family of heritage sites, museums, country house estates and a flagship art gallery. Established in 1821, we are the largest local authority-run museum service in England and have one of the most significant multidisciplinary collections in the UK. We exist to collect, preserve and interpret historic, cultural and scientific …
Layer Marney Tower is a Tudor palace, composed of buildings, gardens and parkland, dating from 1520 situated in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. The building was designated Grade I listed in 1952. Constructed in the first half of the reign of Henry VIII, Layer Marney Tower is in many ways the apotheosis …
Muchelney Abbey is an English Heritage property in the village of Muchelney in the Somerset Levels, England. The site consists of ruined walls showing the layout of the abbey buildings constructed from the 7th to 16th and the remaining intact Abbott’s House. It is next to the parish church in which some of the fabric …
Knole NT is a country house situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. The house apparently ranks in the top five of England’s largest houses, under any measure used, occupying a total of four acres. Vita Sackville-West, who grew up there, recounts a legend …
King Alfred’s Tower, also known as The Folly of King Alfred the Great or Stourton Tower, is a folly tower. It is in the parish of Brewham in the English county of Somerset, and was built as part of the Stourhead estate and landscape. The tower stands on Kingsettle Hill and belongs to the National …
Tickets for Kensington Palace What’s Included Admission to Kensington Palace A real royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. Home to Prince William, Duchess of Cambridge, and their family. The palace gives you a glimpse into how life is lived in a royal palace. Kensington …
Few residential buildings in the east of London can match Imperial Hall in terms of history and character. Today it is home to professionals working in the City, law firms, media and Internet companies and sits at the intersection of London?s major transport, business and IT hubs. The area itself is rapidly developing and seeing …
Hylands Estate, comprises of the park, house and stabling has had a vast and varied history. Chelmsford City?Council is the tenth owner of the now beautifully restored Hylands Estate. Hylands?was?built around 1730, for Sir John Comyns; the original house was a red brick Queen Anne style mansion with approximately 400 acres of land. Through the …
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