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To help publicise the relatively new home for Axminster’s Tourist Information Axminster Heritage has put together a fun quiz about the town and about travel. An entry sheet costs £1 with proceeds [...]

As part of the Cherry Fayre activity Cherry Quizzes were on sale at the Heritage Centre, Stockland Fair, Axe Vale Festival, Archway Bookshop, Sublyme Cafe, River Cottage Kitchen & Deli and [...]

In support of the Cherry Fayre 2018 Axminster Heritage has put together a fun cherry-themed quiz. Questions range from book titles, to famous people called Cherry, through general knowledge to [...]

Woburn, Bedfordshire, MK17 9WA (Website) Occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford. Although it is still a [...]

Arrington, Royston, Cambridge, SG8 0BW (Website) A country house located within the Parish of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England, about 8 1/2 miles southwest of Cambridge. The house, begun in 1640, [...]

South Harting, Petersfield, West Sussex, GU31 5QR (Website) The house, set high on the South Downs, was built for Ford Grey (1655—1701), the first Earl of Tankerville, c.1690 and was sold in 1747 [...]

Knutsford, WA16 6QN Around 1716 a new house was built on a separate site for the Egerton family. From 1758 improvements were made to the house and between the 1770s and 1816 most of it was [...]

Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 0EZ (Website) Tabley House is a former stately home near Knutsford, Cheshire. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I [...]

Stourton, Warminster, BA12 6QF (Website) Although the main design for the estate at Stourhead was created by Colen Campbell, there were various other architects involved in its evolution through [...]

Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 1UH (Website) A George II era mansion located in Plympton, Plymouth, England. The house that can be seen today is the work of Robert Adam, who altered the original [...]