Founded in 1895, the National Trust now looks after over 200 houses of outstanding importance in over 600,000 acres of beautiful British countryside.
The National Trust's National Treasures 10-dvd box examines ten magnificent properties in detail: HARDWICK HALL in Derbyshire, home of Bess Hardwick - Elizabethan England's second most powerful woman, CALKE ABBEY barely changed since the 1880s, THE VYNE in Hampshire, WADDESDON MANOR built for Baron Rothschild, Lutyens' CASTLE DROGO on Dartmoor, POWYS CASTLE dating back to the 1200s, Modernist homes WILLOW ROAD & HOMEWOOD, HAM HOUSE on the Thames between Richmond and Kingston - one of the most outstanding Stuart houses in Britain, Rudyard Kipling's BATEMAN'S in the Sussex Weald, and CASTLE WARD in County Down - famed for its Classical and Gothic facades.
10-dvd box, price £44.99 (save £5.00 - mrrp £49.99).
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