Ascott
Wing, nr Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire LU7 0PS
Tel: 01296 688242
Anthony de Rothschild collection of fine pictures, French and English
furniture and oriental porcelain. The garden contains unusual trees,
flower borders, water lilies and a topiary sundial.
Boarstall Duck Decoy
Boarstall, nr Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 9UX
Tel: 01844 237488
A rare survival of a 17th century decoy in working order, set in
natural woodland with nature trail.
Boarstall Tower
Boarstall, nr Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 9UX
Tel: 01280 822850 (Mon-Fri)
Dates from the 14th century and altered in the 16th & 17th
centuries, but retains its crossloops for bows. The tower is almost
surrounded by a moat.
Bradenham Village nr High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Tel: 01494 755573
The church and 17th-century manor house (not open) provide an
impressive backdrop to the sloping village green. A network of
paths provides easy access for walkers to explore the delightful
surrounding countryside, which includes hills, farmlands and classic
Chilterns beech-woods.
Buckingham Chantry Chapel
Market Hill, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
Tel: 01280 822850
A 15th-century chapel, the oldest building in Buckingham and
incorporating a fine Norman doorway. Later used as a school, it was
restored by Gilbert Scott in 1875.
Claydon House Middle Claydon, nr Buckingham, Buckinghamshire MK18 2EY
Tel: 01494 755561 (Infoline); 01296 730349
The most perfect expression of Rococo decoration in England with
wood carving in the Chinese and Gothic styles.
Cliveden Taplow, Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire SL6 0JA
Tel: 01494 755562 (Infoline); 01628 669461
Set on cliffs about 65 metres above the Thames the present house,
built in 1851, is now let as a hotel. There is a magnificent parterre,
water garden and miles of woodland walks.
Dorneywood Garden Dorneywood, Burnham, Buckinghamshire SL1 8PY
Tel: 01628 665361
This 1930’s style garden has fine herbaceous borders, rose garden,
lily pond, conservatory, cottage and kitchen gardens. The house is
not open to the public and there is a charge for NT members.
Hughenden Manor High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP14 4LA
Tel: 01494 755565 (Infoline); 01494 755573
Bought in 1847 by Benjamin Disraeli who lived here until his death
in 1881. The house retains much of his furniture, pictures and
books.
King’s Head King’s Head Passage, Market Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
HP20 2RW
Tel: 01296 381501
A coaching inn, dating from 1450 and of particular interest for its
large mullioned window, containing fragments of 15th-century glass
carrying the arms of Henry VI and his wife, Margaret of Anjou.
Long Crendon Courthouse Long Crendon, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 9AN
Tel: 01280 822850
A 15th century two-storey building. The manorial courts were held
here from the reign of Henry V until Victorian times.
Pitstone Windmill Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire
Tel: 01442 851227
One of the oldest post mills in Britain.
Princes Risborough Manor House Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire HP17 9AW
Tel: 01494 755573
A 17th-century red-brick house with Jacobean staircase.
Stowe Landscape Gardens Buckingham, Buckinghamshire MK18 5DQ
Tel: 01494 755568 (Infoline); 01280 822850
One of the supreme creations of the Georgian era. The garden’s
sheer scale must make it Britain’s largest work of art. The house
(not NT) has been occupied by Stowe School since 1923.
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon, nr Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0JH
Tel: 01296 653211 (Infoline); 01296 653226
The Manor was designed in the style of a French Renaissance
chateau and built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the 1870s.
West Wycombe Park
West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP14 3AJ
Tel: 01494 755571 (Infoline); 01494 513569
A perfectly preserved rococo landscape garden created in the mid-
18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood. The house is among the
most theatrical and Italianate in England.
West Wycombe Village and Hill West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Tel: 01494 755573
The village has cottages and inns dating from the 16th to 18th
centuries. On top of the Hill is an Iron Age hill fort.
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