House & garden highlights

Cheshire

This superb Georgian mansion has wonderful Edwardian interiors and extensive servants’ quarters. One of the great plantsman’s gardens of the North West, Dunham also boasts an ancient deer park and Elizabethan saw mill.

Hare Hill

This charming woodland garden, full of azaleas and rhododendrons, is particularly special in early summer. The delightful walled area has a pergola and wire sculptures. An attractive 2 mile walk goes to Alderley Edge.

Little Moreton Hall

Arguably Britain’s finest timber-framed and moated manor house, the drunkenly reeling South Front of Little Moreton Hall is topped by a spectacular Long Gallery. The magnificent wall paintings and charming Knot Garden are of special interest.

Lyme Park

Lyme Park, on the edge of the Peak District, was ‘Pemberley’ in the 1995 BBC series ‘Pride and Prejudice’. With its rich Italianate interiors, medieval deer park, Victorian gardens and moorland walks, Lyme offers a wonderful day out.

Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate

This wonderful industrial heritage site, with a water powered Georgian Mill, still produces cotton calico. In the Apprentice House you can discover what life was like for the pauper children working at the mill.

Cumbria

Acorn Bank Garden & Watermill

Acorn Bank is a delightful sheltered garden renowned for the largest collection of medicinal and culinary herbs in the North of England. There are spectacular displays of shrubs, roses and herbaceous borders, and old English fruit varieties.

Sizergh Castle & Garden

This medieval house, extended in Elizabethan times, boasts exceptional oak panelled rooms, furniture and ceramics. The garden, which includes two lakes and a superb rock garden, is set in a 1600 acre estate.

Stagshaw Garden

A steep woodland garden, Stagshaw is noted for its fine collection of shrubs including rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. Adjacent Skelghyll Woods offers delightful walks and access to the Lakeland fells beyond.

Wordsworth House

This fine Georgian townhouse was birthplace and childhood home of William Wordsworth. Costumed interpreters provide an insight into the daily life of the Wordsworth family. The garden is planted with intriguing 18th-century plants.

Liverpool

20 Forthlin Road

20 Forthlin Road was the childhood home of Sir Paul McCartney. This house, together with Mendips where John Lennon lived, uniquely evokes the time before The Beatles evolved, and is where some of their earliest songs were written.

Mendips

Mendips, the childhood home of John Lennon, provides a unique insight into the life and times of Lennon as a boy, through photographs and fascinating memorabilia.

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Mr Hardman’s Photographic Studio at 59 Rodney Street

A fascinating time capsule of Liverpool life between 1947 and 1988, this Georgian house was home to photographer Edward Chambré Hardman. On display are Hardman’s unique pictorial photographs of Liverpool life. Have your own photograph taken in Hardman's original studio as a memento of your visit.

Speke Hall, Garden & Estate

Speke is a Tudor half timbered house with rich interiors and fine gardens set on the banks of the Mersey Estuary. Visit the Great Hall, priests’ hole, and the Home Farm. Walks in the estate offer dramatic views across the estuary to the mountains of North Wales.

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House & garden highlights