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Explore treasures in a Capability Brown designed the Undercroft Museum, the landscape where experts guide huge collection of medieval visitors through grounds heady stained glass and take the Tower with the scent of ancient blooms Challenge: climb the 275 steps and the sound of water fountains. up the Central Tower for close- ups of the Gothic grotesques, www.burghley.co.uk and for sweeping views over historic York. www.yorkminster.org ALNWICK CASTLE & THE KIELDER WATER & ALNWICK GARDEN FOREST PARK Best known as a filming location for Home to the biggest man-made Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter lake in Northern Europe and films, Alnwick Castle’s history brims England’s largest working forest, with drama, intrigue, and extraor- Kielder Water and Forest Park dinary people, brought to life with is nature on a grand scale. Here learn-to-fly-a-broomstick sessions, the views are bigger, the night the Historical Grounds Tour and sky brighter and the outdoor the State Room Tour. Over the activities as gentle or extreme past 18 years The Alnwick Garden as you choose. Hire a bike, has transformed into a wonderful walk the forest trails, go red combination of spaces, themes and squirrel watching or board the quirkiness including the Grand Cas- Osprey ferry for a trip around cade centrepiece, one of Europe’s the lake. This is a great location largest Treehouses and gated for star gazing at The Kielder Poison Garden plus a collection of Observatory in the heart of over 4000 plant varieties. Northumberland’s International Dark Sky Park. www.alnwickcastle.com www.alnwickgarden.com www.visitkielder.com OF ENGLAND OF served up with a warm welcome. warm a with up served HEART HISTORIC & CULTURAL THE properties and enjoy good food in good company company good in food good enjoy and properties THROUGH ROUTE TOURING A country house hotels or upmarket city-based city-based upmarket or hotels house country and cosy bed and breakfasts to pubs with rooms, rooms, with pubs to breakfasts and bed cosy and you to take your pick from traditional coaching inns inns coaching traditional from pick your take to you towns and historic cities. 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Take a guided and its vast, intricately carved tour through almost 500 years stone. There are unexpected of history from the simplicity of stories to be unearthed around the Tudor kitchen to the Baroque every corner, from deep in the opulence of the Heaven Room. crypt to the top of the Central The house is surrounded by Tower. Explore treasures in a Capability Brown designed the Undercroft Museum, the landscape where experts guide huge collection of medieval visitors through grounds heady stained glass and take the Tower with the scent of ancient blooms Challenge: climb the 275 steps and the sound of water fountains. up the Central Tower for close- ups of the Gothic grotesques, www.burghley.co.uk and for sweeping views over historic York. www.yorkminster.org ALNWICK CASTLE & THE KIELDER WATER & ALNWICK GARDEN FOREST PARK Best known as a filming location for Home to the biggest man-made Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter lake in Northern Europe and films, Alnwick Castle’s history brims England’s largest working forest, with drama, intrigue, and extraor- Kielder Water and Forest Park dinary people, brought to life with is nature on a grand scale. Here learn-to-fly-a-broomstick sessions, the views are bigger, the night the Historical Grounds Tour and sky brighter and the outdoor the State Room Tour. Over the activities as gentle or extreme past 18 years The Alnwick Garden as you choose. Hire a bike, has transformed into a wonderful walk the forest trails, go red combination of spaces, themes and squirrel watching or board the quirkiness including the Grand Cas- Osprey ferry for a trip around cade centrepiece, one of Europe’s the lake. This is a great location largest Treehouses and gated for star gazing at The Kielder Poison Garden plus a collection of Observatory in the heart of over 4000 plant varieties. Northumberland’s International Dark Sky Park. www.alnwickcastle.com www.alnwickgarden.com www.visitkielder.com EXPERIENCE ENGLAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE UP CLOSE ON Every era of English history THE EXPLORER’S ROAD The English love to garden builds new monuments to and to share their green- wealth, architecture and fingered creativity and status, be it castles that once passion. 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