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Quebec House, Kent

Childhood home of General James Wolfe, victor of the Battle of Quebec (1759)...

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Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, Greater London

Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, Greater London

For over two hundred and fifty years, the gardens at Kew have been the dream and vision of talented gardeners, and the.....

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Syon House, Greater London

Syon House, Greater London

This is the magnificent house that made Robert Adams. At only twenty nine years of age he was commissioned to decorate Syon.....

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Guildford Cathedral, Surrey

Guildford Cathedral, Surrey

This great Surrey cathedral is one of the few churches to come out of the 20th-century. Its design by Sir Edward Maufe had been.....

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Kew Palace, Greater London

Kew Palace, Greater London

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Chiswick House, Greater London

Chiswick House, Greater London

Few can resist this fine classical building which was the creation of Lord Burlington, patron of the arts in the early part of.....

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Chartwell, Kent

Chartwell, Kent

The home of Sir Winston Churchill, from 1924 until his death. Churchill purchased it for its magnificent views across the weald.....

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Nymans Garden, West Sussex

Nymans Garden, West Sussex

Nyman's Gardens possesses a rich landscape of rare conifers, shrubs and plants all set around the romantic ruins of a beautiful.....

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Standen, West Sussex

Standen, West Sussex

Arts & Crafts family home with Morris & Co. interiors, set in a beautiful hillside garden...

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Wakehurst Place, West Sussex

Wakehurst Place, West Sussex

The autumn colours in the gardens of Wakehurst Place make a dramatic impact seen against the backdrop of vast grey Sussex winter.....

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Loseley House, Surrey

Loseley House, Surrey

This lovely gabled Elizabethan house, built of a greenish-grey ragstone from the ruins of nearby Waverley Abbey, was built around.....

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Peckham Rye, Greater London

Peckham Rye, Greater London

It was on the Peckham Rye in the 1760s that William Blake claimed to have seen visions, including one of "a tree filled with.....

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Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey

Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey

The magnificent landscape of Winkworth was begun in 1937 when Dr.Wilfred Fox took the opportunity to acquire a parcel of land.....

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Osterley Park & House, Greater London

Magnificent neo-classical house with fine Adam interiors, landscape park and 18th-century gardens...

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