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| If you need some inspiration for your Home & Garden
improvements, we've chosen some of the county's great days out. |
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| Castle Ashby Gardens |
A428 at Castle Ashby Village (east of Northampton)
Owned by the Marquess of Northampton, parklands,
Victorian gardens and lakes surround an Elizabethan mansion. |
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| Cottesbrooke Hall & Gardens |
Cottesbrooke (close to Junctions 1 & 2 of A14)
Tel 01604 505808 Fax 01604 505619
Queen Anne house dating from 1702 and owned by Capt. J
MacDonald-Buchanan. Reputedly the pattern for Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park",
the magnificent architecture houses a renowned picture collection, English
and continental furniture and porcelain. With extensive gardens of great
variety and a tearoom. |
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| Haddonstone Show Garden |
Off A428 at East Haddon village Tel 01604 770711
Walled manor gardens on different levels with shrub roses,
conifers, clematis and climbers. A selection of gardens ornaments including
balaustrading, fountains, troughs and urns. |
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Lamport Hall
Lamport Village (A508) Tel 01604 868272
Home to the Isham family for over 400 years, this 16th century house
contains an amazing collection of furniture, books, paintings and
china. With fine rooms to appreciate and tranquil gardens, you will
also find an agricultural museum, parklands, a shop and tearoom. |
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