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Canons
Ashby House (6 Miles)*
address and post code:
Canons
Ashby
Daventry
Northamptonshire
NN11 3SD
Canons Ashby is a romantic, 16th century Elizabethan
manor house which has survived unaltered since 1710.
Home of the Dryden family since it was first built, the
house sits amongst beautiful gardens
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Holdenby House and
Gardens (7 Miles)*
address and post code:
Holdenby
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN6 8DJ
Just across the fields from Althorp lies Holdenby, a
house whose royal connections go back over 400 years.
Built by Sir Christopher Hatton to entertain Elizabeth
I, it became the Palace of James I and the prison of his
son, Charles I.
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Northampton Museum & Art Gallery
(7 Miles)*
address and post code:
Guildhall
Road
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 1DP
Fascinating footwear worn throughout the ages is just
one of the many attractions in the museum.
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National Waterways Museum (8
Miles)*
address and post code:
Bridge
Road
Stoke Bruerne
Towcester
Northamptonshire
NN12 7SE
Housed in a restored cornmill in the picturesque village
of Stoke Bruerne, the museum collection vividly portrays
the heritage of 200 years of inland waterways.
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Coton Manor
Garden
(8 Miles)*
address and post code:
Coton Manor
Nr Guilsborough
Northamptonshire
NN6 8RQ
Coton Manor lies in peaceful Northamptonshire
countryside and enjoys beautiful views providing an
ideal setting for the garden.
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Abington Park Museum (8
Miles)*
address and post code:
Abington
Park
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 5LW
'The museum in the park' is a beautiful Grade 1 listed
building.
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Sulgrave Manor
Also try: http://www.sulgravemanor.org.uk
(9 Miles)*
See also separate convention
web page
address and post code:
Sulgrave
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX17 2SD
Sulgrave Manor is a superb example of a modest manor and
garden of the time of Shakespeare, and was home to the
ancestors of George Washington.
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Bygones Museum (12 Miles)*
address and post code:
Butlin
Farm
Claydon
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX17 1EP
The museum houses a unique collection of antiques and
memorabilia gathered together by the owners over a
period of sixty years.
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Lamport Hall (12 Miles)*
Also try:
http://www.lamporthall.co.uk/
address and post code:
Lamport
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN6 9HD
Lamport Hall was the home of the Isham family for over
four centuries.
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Sywell Aviation Museum (12
Miles)*
Also try:
http://www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk/museum.php
address and post code:
Sywell
Aerodrome
Sywell
Northants
NN6 0BN
Sywell Aviation Museum charts the history of the
delightful Art Deco Sywell Aerodrome from 1928 to the
present and aviation in Northamptonshire as a whole.
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Rugby School Museum (13
Miles)*
address and post code:
Barby Road
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV21 3AW
The Museum has now re-opened at its new site in Barby
Road.
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Stanford Hall (13 Miles)*
Also try:
http://www.stanfordhall.co.uk/
address and post code:
Lutterworth
Leicestershire
LE17 6DH
Stanford, where Shakespeare's Avon flows gently through
the Park, has been the home of the Cave family,
ancestors of the present owner Lady Braye since 1430.
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Stowe Landscape Gardens (13
Miles)*
Also try:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-stowegardens
address and post code:
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
MK18 5DQ
One of the first and finest Georgian landscape gardens
in Britain, Stowe has over 30 arches and temples
mirrored in the waters of lakes or silhouetted against
the sky. The garden and park were created by the Temple
family during a two hundred year period.
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Kelmarsh Hall and Gardens (14
Miles)*
Also try:
http://www.kelmarsh.com/
address and post code:
Kelmarsh
Northampton
NN6 9LT
Kelmarsh is a 3,363 acre (1361ha) agricultural estate at
the heart of which stands the eighteenth century
Kelmarsh Hall, surrounded by its pleasure gardens and
parkland.
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Cowper & Newton Museum
(16 Miles)*
Also try:
http://www.cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk/
address
and post code:
Market Place
Olney
Buckinghamshire
MK46 4AJ
Visit Orchard Side, home of the 18th century poet,
translator and Letter-writer William Cowper. See
displays of his works, portraits and memorabilia, plus
those of his friend John Newton. |
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