Historic places I have visited in 2014 - quiz answers

Here are 20 great historic places that I visited in 2014. If you want to have a go at identifying them from the photos, click here to take the quiz before going any further!

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Stourhead

Read more about Stourhead's beautiful landscaped gardens and the life of its owners, the Hoares of Hoare's bank, here.

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Osterley Park from the gardens

Osterley Park was remodelled by the architect Robert Adam and was the status symbol of Sir Francis Child.

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Saltram

When George III stayed in Weymouth in the summer of 1789, he made a western tour and stayed at Saltram. Read more about the Parkers of Saltram and their house here.

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Sudbury Hall

Sudbury Hall is home to the National Trust Museum of Childhood - a great family day out with interactive displays. You might recognise the interiors of the house which were used for Pemberley during the filming of the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

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Strawberry Hill

Horace Walpole's Gothic palace - Strawberry Hill in Middlesex - was as incredible as I had hoped it would be.

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Kenwood House

The newly restored Kenwood House was the home of Lord Mansfield and is under the care of English Heritage.

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Chatsworth

Chatsworth is the magnificent home of the Duke of Devonshire and was once home to the charismatic Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, a leading light in the Georgian ton. Read my guide to Chatsworth here and see a photo tour of Chatsworth here. Discover more about Georgiana here.

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Arlington Court

Arlington Court in Devon is home to the National Trust Carriage Museum. Read more about Arlington Court here.

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Haddon Hall

Haddon Hall has been used as a film set on numerous occasions, and has repeatedly been used to depict Thornfield Hall in adaptations of Jane Eyre. Read more about the history of Haddon Hall here.

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Eyam Hall

Eyam Hall in Derbyshire is a relatively humble property built in the village of Eyam, a community devastated by plague just a few years before. Eyam is in the care of the National Trust.

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Clandon Park

Lord Onslow's magnificent Surrey home - Clandon Park.

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Cotehele

The Edgcumbe family's Tudor home in Cornwall was visited by George III and Queen Charlotte in 1789. Read more about Cotehele here.

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Uppark

Uppark was ravaged by fire in 1989 but has been lovingly restored by the National Trust.

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Mount Edgcumbe

Just across the water from Plymouth, Mount Edgcumbe was the Tudor home of the Edgcumbe family and was devastated by bombing and fire during the Second World War. You can read more about Mount Edgcumbe here.

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Nostell Priory

Nostell Priory in Yorkshire boasts a large collection of Chippendale furniture as well as stunning interiors designed by Robert Adam. Read my guide to Nostell Priory here.

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Kedleston Hall

Kedleston Hall is another showplace for the architect Robert Adam. It was a major film location for The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley.


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Hatchlands

I visited Hatchlands on one of the hottest days of the year! It was the home of one of the bluestockings, Fanny Boscawen. Sadly her husband, Admiral Boscawen, died just two years after it was completed.

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Lyme Park

I have wanted to visit Lyme Park again for a long time and finally got my chance this autumn when we were staying in Derbyshire. The exterior of Lyme Park represented Pemberley in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. The view above awed Lizzy Bennet and I have to say that I can see why!

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The Vyne

Unfortunately this was the best photo of The Vyne that I could get as the outside was covered with scaffolding when I visited!

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Polesden Lacey

The Polesden Lacey estate was once leased by playwright and MP Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Mr and Mrs Greville transformed the house into an Edwardian showpiece where they entertained royalty. Read more about Polesden Lacey in my Regency History guide here.

All photographs © Andrew Knowles - www.flickr.com/photos/dragontomato

Historic places I have visited in 2014 - a quiz

I have visited a huge number of historic properties in 2014, some of which I have already blogged about, and some of which are blogs waiting to happen! Here is my top twenty.

Can you name the places I have visited from the pictures below? If you need a few clues, there is a list of all the places below the pictures. Answers here.

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I started the year with a visit to Nostell Priory in Yorkshire with its exquisite Adam interiors, followed by a visit to Stourhead with its world famous landscaped gardens. My birthday treat was a visit to Arlington Court in Devon and the National Trust Carriage Museum, where I was particularly taken by a travelling carriage complete with the Georgian equivalent of a roof box!

A short break in Plymouth enabled me to follow in George III’s footsteps, visiting Saltram where he stayed in 1789, and Cotehele and Mount Edgcumbe, both of which the King visited during his stay.

My July travels took me to Surrey: Clandon Park where Frederick, Prince of Wales, dined in 1729; Hatchlands built for Admiral Boscawen and his bluestocking wife Fanny; and Polesden Lacey, the estate which was once leased by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Later in the year I visited Uppark, restored from the devastation caused by fire in 1989, and The Vyne, once visited by Henry VIII.

Several of the places I visited this year have been used as film locations: Haddon Hall, repeatedly used as a film set for Jane Eyre; Sudbury Hall, where the internal shots of Pemberley in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice were filmed and Lyme Park where the external shots were filmed; Kedleston Hall where part of The Duchess was filmed; and Chatsworth used in the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice.

I visited the magnificence of Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill; Osterley Park, the showplace of the Child family; and Kenwood House, once home to Lord Mansfield and his illegitimate great niece Dido, subject of the film Belle, as well as the more modest Eyam Hall in Derbyshire.

 All photographs © Andrew Knowles - www.flickr.com/photos/dragontomato

The answers to my Regency quiz - name that place

Here are the answers to my Georgian places quiz. I have mentioned one Georgian link for each, but I am sure there are more!

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Kensington Palace, London.
George III's coronation robes are on display here.




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The Pump Room, Bath. Jane Austen lived in Bath 1800-1806 and the Pump Room is mentioned in two of her novels - Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. 






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Top of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
A thanksgiving service for the recovery of George III from his recent debilitating illness was held here on 23 April 1789.






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The Great Court at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lord Byron and William John Bankes both attended this college.


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This is the rear view of Buckingham Palace which you can only see from inside the Palace gates. After becoming King, Buckingham Palace became George IV's new architectural project.

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The Osmington white horse, depicting George III on horseback, is on the hillside overlooking Weymouth bay where he spent so many holidays.

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The clue is in the word Cavendo. This is Chatsworth House, home of the Cavendish family, William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, and his wife Georgiana.

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The clock at Hampton Court Palace. Beau Brummell's father was granted a grace-and-favour tenancy in "the Silver Stick Gallery" at Hampton Court in 1782.





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The Royal Crescent, Bath. Richard Brinsley Sheridan eloped with Elizabeth Linley from her father's house at 11, Royal Crescent, on 18 March 1772.

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Brighton Pavilion - George IV's seaside palace.






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The Angel of Peace descending on the quadriga of war - the sculpture on top of the Wellington Arch opposite Apsley House in London, home of the Duke of Wellington.





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The British Museum, London, founded in 1753.






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St James' Palace, London, where George IV was born on 12 August 1762.





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The Eneceladus fountain in the gardens at the Palace of Versailles, home of the fated French King, Louis XVI and his wife, Marie-Antoinette.

All photographs by Andrew Knowles - www.flickr.com/photos/dragontomato