England's National Trust places

We joined as members of National Trust which gave us free entry to all the places managed by the Trust.

First place we visited was The Workhouse at Southwell. This is the only gloomy NT place we visited which give an insight of how the poor lived and worked in the 19th and early 20 century.

  

Belton House, Grantham, Lincolnshire

 

 This 17th century house with magnificient park and manicured gardens.

 and grand interior

A cricket game was on in front of Belton House when we were there. 

 Standen House, East Grinstead in West Sussex, designed by Philip Webb and William Morris, is full of arty objects.

Well maintained gardens around this family house.

 Dyrham Park, South Gloucestershire

 Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire

 The abbey has been used as the film set for Harry Porter movies.

Kitchen stove in the abbey which had provided living quarters for nuns

  

Fox Talbot  Museum, Lacock Village exhibits history of photography and holds photo exhibitions

Lacock Village itself  is a living film set for Jane Austen's novels

 Newark Park in Gloucestershire has a house with commanding views of the Cotswolds.

 

Windows of an old Tudor House.This was the oldest house we visited. 

Sutton House in Hackney, London was built in the 16th century by a courtier of Henry VIII.