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Portrait of Elizabeth Knollys, Lady Leighton, attributed to George Gower, 1577, at Montacute House, Somerset (Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart bequest). ©NTPL/Derrick E. Witty I vividly remember seeing this portrait years ago at an exhibition about Elizabeth I at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. It sang out with its self-confident fashion sense. It comes as no surprise that this woman, Elizabeth Knollys (pronounced to rhyme with bowls), Lady Leighton, is thought to have been in char...
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Lord Chancellor’s purse, worn and tarnished but still an extraordinary example of the embroiderer’s art, that belonged to Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764). Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of George II and one of the longest serving. (Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire).
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Ightham Mote - a beautiful 14th C Manor House in Kent, now owned and looked after by the National Trust
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Mottisfont Abbey (National Trust): Amazing rose garden May/June. Beautiful streams, grounds and interesting early 20th century British paintings. Rex Whistler murals. V. much worth a visit.
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Little Moreton Hall in Congleton (Cheshire). Tudor style manor house with a moat.
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Smallhythe Place, Kent. Famous Victorian & Edwardian actress Ellen Terry's early 16th-century house and cottage gardens
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Is this Britain's first Christian burial? Anglo Saxon grave reveals 16-year-old girl laid to rest with a gold cross. www.dailymail.co....
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The Tudor dining room at Avebury Manor
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Trerice -- excellent and relatively intact Elizabethan manor
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the Tabard Inn with tile-hung, roughcast rendered and brickwork stages
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The Moat House ... a Jacobean gem in the heart of Tamworth
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