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Goddards Garden

This is a rather unique National Trust property. The Garden is both small and beautiful. The Yorkshire Regional NT Office, the house is not open to visitors, but the National Trust has opened the garden for all to enjoy. Arts and Crafts terraces yield to a wilderness style lower garden with a charming pond. The [...]

19 Jul 2009 Michael Fielding Garber 0

Oxburgh Hall

Oxburgh Hall is an interesting moated house in brick with impressive Tudor gatehouse. The moat is not defensive, but merely ornamental, yielding to a largely Victorian interior. Tooled leather wall treatments are both lavish and decadent, their sumptuousness graces even some of the corridors. The one priest hole which visitors can see, can also be [...]

19 Jul 2009 Michael Fielding Garber 0

Snowshill Manor and Garden

Interestingly, one might not go to Snowshill Manor to see the manor itself! The primary attraction of Snowshill Manor is its collection of well, just about everything. The collections range from shoes and bicycles to Samurai and European armor. The Manor is the story of an Architect, who from inherited wealth did not need to [...]

19 Jul 2009 Michael Fielding Garber 0