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Iford Manor - Enchanting Havens
Iford Manor is home to Grade I Listed Gardens, located on the last hill of the Cotswolds, with the Wiltshire/Somerset border running...
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May 24, 20233 min read
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Dyrham Park - Enchanting Havens
Dyrham Park is a baroque English country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England. I...
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Apr 26, 20231 min read
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Colesbourne Gardens - Enchanting Havens
Colesbourne Gardens in Gloucestershire has one of the greatest snowdrop gardens in England. The collection is quite likely the most...
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Feb 1, 20231 min read
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Tyntesfield House - Enchanting Havens
Tyntesfield is a Victorian Gothic Revival house and estate near Wraxall, North Somerset, England. Originally a smaller Georgian house,...
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Jan 11, 20235 min read
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Strawberry Hill House & Gardens - Enchanting Havens
Strawberry Hill House is an extraordinary building, created by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, is internationally famous as Britain’s...
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Dec 21, 20227 min read
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Kingston Lacy - Enchanting Havens
Kingston Lacy is a country house and estate near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, "A lavish family home re-imagined as a Venetian...
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Oct 12, 20226 min read
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Stourhead - Enchanting Havens
Stourhead is a 2,650-acre estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into...
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Sep 21, 20225 min read
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Wilton House - Enchanting Havens
"Wilton House, home to ​the 18th Earl and Countess of Pembroke, provides a fascinating insight into British history. Built on the site of...
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Jul 20, 20222 min read
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Mottisfont - Enchanting Havens
Mottisfont is a historical priory, garden and country estate in Hampshire, managed by the National Trust. The Russell family arrived at...
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Jun 22, 20226 min read
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Kiftsgate Hall Gardens - Enchanting Havens
Kiftsgate Court Gardens is situated above the village of Mickleton in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The gardens, famed for its...
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Jun 1, 20225 min read
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Hidecote Manor - Enchanting Havens
Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden in Gloucestershire. It is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain,...
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May 25, 20225 min read
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The Laskett Gardens - Enchanting Havens
"The Laskett Gardens, set in the idyllic countryside of Herefordshire on the Welsh borders, is the creation of Sir Roy Strong CH and his...
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Apr 27, 202210 min read
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Dennis Severs' House - Enchanting Havens
Dennis Severs came to Spitalfields in 1979 and bought a derelict house saved by the Spitalfields Trust. He reconfigured it to tell the...
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Dec 8, 20212 min read
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Buscot Park - Enchanting Havens
At the end of September, with my usual companion in tow, I made a visit to Buscot Park, a late 18th-century house set in enchanting...
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Nov 17, 20212 min read
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Sir John Soane Museum - Enchanting Havens
Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum in London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect, John Soane. It holds many...
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Sep 1, 20215 min read
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The Oxford Botanic Garden - Enchanting Havens
The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the...
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Aug 18, 20213 min read
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Nymans - Enchanting Havens
Nymans is an English garden to the east of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England. The...
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Jul 28, 20216 min read
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Renishaw Hall and Gardens - Enchanting Havens
Renishaw Hall is a country house in Renishaw in the parish of Eckington in Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building and has...
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Jul 14, 20214 min read
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St Donant's Castle - Enchanting Havens
St Donat's Castle (Castell Sain Dunwyd), is a medieval castle in the Vale of Glamorgan. Positioned on cliffs overlooking the Bristol...
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May 2, 20214 min read
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Fonthill Abbey: A Cathedral for One
Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in...
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Jan 13, 20214 min read
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