EAST MIDLANDS
Belton House Grantham, Lincolnshire NG32 2LS Tel: (01476) 566 116
A fine example of Restoration country house architecture. The house, built 1685–88, has fine plasterwork and wood carving, and collections of portraits, furniture, tapestries, oriental porcelain and silver.
Calke Abbey Ticknall, Derby, Derbyshire DE73 1LE Tel: (01332) 863 822

A baroque mansion built 1701, essentially unaltered since the 1880s. The grounds include a walled garden and orangery.
Canons Ashby House Canons Ashby, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 3SD Tel: (01327) 860 044 or 861 900
Home of the Dryden family since the 16th century, displaying Elizabethan wall-paintings and outstanding Jacobean plasterwork.
Clumber Park Clumber Park, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 3AZ Tel: (01909) 476 592
1538ha of parkland, farmland, lake and woodlands; also a walled garden including a Victorian apiary, vineries and tools exhibition.
Gunby Hall Gunby nr Spilsby, Lincolnshire PE23 5SS Tel: (01909) 486 411
A red-brick house with stone dressings. The interior displays early 18th century wainscoting and a fine oak staircase, also fine furniture, paintings and china.
Hardwick Hall Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S44 5QJ Tel: (01246) 850 430
A magnificent Elizabethan house built by Bess of Hardwick. Contains outstanding contemporary furniture, tapestries and needlework, many pieces identified in an inventory of 1601.
High Peak Estate Edale End, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S33 6RF Tel: (01433) 670 368
The High Peak is walking country. The Pennine moorlands are of international importance for their populations of breeding birds, including golden plover, merlin and red grouse. Sites of particular interest include Mam Tor, Odin Mine, Kinder Scout, and the unspoilt valley of Snake Pass.
llam Park Ilam, Ashbourne, Derbyshire Tel: (01335) 350 245
An attractive park and woodland on both banks of the River Manifold with magnificent views towards Dovedale.Kedleston Hall Derby, Derbyshire DE22 5JH Tel: (01332) 842 191
A Palladian mansion set in a classical park landscape, built 1759–65. The house has the most complete and least-altered sequence of Robert Adam interiors in England.
Longshaw Estate Sheffield, Derbyshire S11 7TZ Tel: (01433) 631 708
A large area of open moorland, woodland and farms in the Peak District National Park.
Lyveden New Bield nr Oundle, Peterborough, Northamptonshire PE8 5AT Tel: (01832) 205 358
The shell of an incomplete lodge or garden house, begun c.1595 and designed in the shape of a cross with interesting exterior frieze work.
The Old Manor Norbury, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 2AD Tel: (01909) 486 411 (Regional Office)
A stone-built hall, dating from the 13th to 15th centuries and of specialist architectural interest only. The adjacent church (not NT) is also worth visiting
Stainsby Mill: Hardwick Estate Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S44 5QJ Tel: (01246) 850 430
A water-powered flour mill still in working order.
Staunton Harold Church Staunton Harold, Ashbey-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire LE65 1RW Tel: (01332) 863 822
One of the very few churches to be built during the Commonwealth. The Church retains its original 17th century cushions and has fine panelling and painted ceilings.
Sudbury Hall Sudbury, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 5HT Tel: (01283) 585 305 or 585 337
One of the most individual of late 17th century houses with rich interior decoration.
Sudbury Hall: The National Trust Museum of Childhood Sudbury, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 5HT Tel: (01283) 585 305 or 585 337
Situated in the 19th century service wing of Sudbury Hall, the Museum of Childhood contains fascinating and innovative displays about children from the 18th century onwards. There are chimney climbs for the adventurous ‘sweep-sized’ children.
Tattershall Castle Tattershall, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN4 4LR Tel: (01526) 342 543
A vast fortified, moated, red-brick tower built c.1440 for Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England.
Winster Market House nr Matlock, Derbyshire Tel: (01335) 350 245
A market house of the late 17th or early 18th century; restored and housing a NT information room.
Woolsthorpe Manor 23 Newton Way, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth nr Grantham, Lincolnshire NG33 5NR Tel: (01476) 860 338
A small 17th century manor house, the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton, who formulated some of his major works here during the Plague years (1665–67). An early edition of his Principia is on display. The orchard includes a descendant of the famous apple tree. Science Discovery Centre and exhibition.
The Workhouse Upton Road, Southwell, Nottinghamshire NG25 0PT Tel: (01636) 817 250 The Workhouse at Southwell is a formidable 19th-century brick institution with a story to tell about the care of the poor in Britain. The revolutionary but harsh ‘welfare’ system introduced here in 1824 was adopted nation-wide in the New Poor Law. The building is the least altered workhouse in existence today, a survivor from the hundreds that once covered the country. Discover the people who lived and worked here, what life was like and how things have changed today.
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