BURGHLEY HOUSE: This is the finest example
of an Elizabethan house in England. Eighteen state rooms and
the ballroom and dining hall are open, displaying a great
collection of Italian art and fine painted ceilings by Verrio
and Laguerre. GRIMSTHORPE
CASTLE: Home of the Willoughby de Eresby family
since 1516, it offers fine examples of 16th-century architecture
of the Tudor period of Henry VIII.
BELVOIR
CASTLE: Seat of the dukes of Rutland since the
time of Henry VIII and rebuilt by Wyatt in 1816. There are
some notable works of art and objets d'art, and they have
special events here most Sundays.
PETERBOROUGH
CATHEDRAL: This cathedral is where Mary Queen of
Scots was buried before she was reburied in Westminster
Abbey. It is a fine Gothic cathedral with a particularly
interesting wooden painted ceiling.
CAMBRIDGE:
This lovely university town is certainly worth the drive.
The university is just as famous as Oxford and almost as
old. It is prettier than Oxford and all the college grounds
run down to the River Cam, an area known as "the Backs."
Like Oxford, it is laid out on monastic lines with each
college built around a quadrangle or cloister.
STANFORD
HALL: A lovely William and Mary house built in
the 1600s and containing the "Stuart Collection."
There is also a motorbicycle museum here and a replica of
the 1898 flying machine in which Percy Pilcher flew. Pilcher
was Britain's pioneer aviator.
LINCOLN
CATHEDRAL: The third largest cathedral in England
and one of the most magnificent. The cathedral and castle
dominate the city.
BELTON
HOUSE: A lovely 17th-century house with a fine
park near Grantham, the town that was birthplace of Margaret
Thatcher. Visit the huge oak tree in Grantham on Belton
Lane.
ALTHORP
HOUSE: A 16th-century mansion that is home to the
Earls Spencer; it was
the childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales. |
