Wightwick Manor and Gardens – National Trust

Wightwick Manor is a Victorian timber-framed manor house built in 1887 near Wolverhampton, but in 1937 Geoffrey Mander, a local paint manufacturer and liberal MP, did something remarkable - he persuaded the National Trust to accept a house that was just 50 years old. The house was completed in two phases, one in 1887 and...

Erddig @ NT

Erddig, situated in North Wales, is one of the most fascinating houses in Britain because of the unusually close relationship between the family of the house and their servants. Erddig has the second most extensive collection of items in the whole of the National Trust. With a total of 30,000 to care for, it's no...