Dimensions
228 x 247 x 33mm
The Guide to National Trust Properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
'The National Trust is the greatest of all British inventions and this guide is the best possible tribute to that invention. It is lively, literate and beautifully illustrated. Go nowhere without it!' - Sir Simon Jenkins.
'The National Trust is a treasure trove of places, buildings and landscapes. This guide perfectly illustrates its diversity. It is refreshing and irresistible.' - Tony Robinson.
'The National Trust Guide is back: fuller, even better illustrated and, thanks to the author, Lydia Greeves, as stunningly well-written as ever' - Dr David Starkey.
The Guide has been described as the National Trust's bible - and indeed it is. This latest edition takes a larger, squarer format, to do full justice to the Trust's illustrious collection of colour photographs, and to showcase recent acquisitions such as the Gothic wonder of Tyntesfield, John Lennon's childhood home Mendips, and William Morris' Arts and Crafts Red House. Magnificent landscapes, including the breathtaking coast of Cornwall, Snowdonia, the Peak District, and the lunar scenery of Stragford Lough, are set beside the Trust's great gardens such as Sissinghurst Castle in Kent and Stourhead Landscape Garden in Wiltshire. The Trust's country houses of course feature in all their varied beauty - from the Tudor splendour of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire through to the magnificent Victoriana at Cragside in Northumberland. Not everything is on such a grand scale; Lydia Greeves describes T.E. Lawrence's modest cottage at Clouds Hill in Dorset, a spade mill in Northern Ireland and even a duck decoy at Boarstall in Buckinghamshire.
