Children in the garden at Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Lake District. ©National Trust Images:Paul Harris
The National Trust looks after hundreds of properties throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, preserving them for all of us to enjoy. If you’re looking for inspiration for a family day out, check out the National Trust website. The charity cares for everything from historic houses, castles and villages to forests, gardens and beaches, and offers many activities for families, particularly during the school holidays.
The National Trust have given me four Family Admission Passes to give away to Mums do travel readers. As this is Visit England’s Year of Literary Heroes, and many of the National Trust’s properties have literary connections, I’ve picked out eight great National Trust places for you to visit for a family day out with a bookish twist.
Hill Top
Hill Top is in the Lake District and is author Beatrix Potter’s former cottage. Beatrix Potter used the royalties which she earned from her Peter Rabbit story to buy Hill Top, and the garden layout reflects Peter’s famous adventures with Mr McGregor. Tom Kitten, Samuel Whiskers and Jemima Puddleduck were all written at Hill Top.
Bateman’s
Bateman’s is a Jacobean house in East Sussex, in the South of England, and was home to writer Rudyard Kipling. Kipling’s works include The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Bateman’s, the Jacobean house that was the home of Rudyard Kipling from 1902 to 1936, set in its garden in the countryside at Burwash, East Sussex ©National Trust Images:John Miller
Coniston Water
Arthur Ransome took inspiration from Coniston Water for his book Swallows and Amazons. The Lake District location was used for filming for the 2016 adaptation of the book.
Knole
Knole House in Sevenoaks, Kent, was used as a film location for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, released in 2011. The Stone Court at Knole became the courtyard of a Swiss castle in the film following the famous detective in pursuit of Professor Moriarty.
Antony House
Antony House in Cornwall is a beautiful Queen Anne building, with sweeping landscaped gardens. It is the home of the Carew Pole family and was used as a film location for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, released in 2010.
Lavenham Guildhall
Lavenham Guldhall in Suffolk is a timber-framed Tudor building, and it was used as Harry Potter’s derelict childhood home in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, which was released in 2010.
Lavenham Guildhall. Copyright Jane Gosling :National Trust
Brownsea Island
Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, was Enid Blyton’s inspiration for Whispering Island which features in her Famous Five books.
The Vyne
The history of The Vyne, Hampshire, starts with royal Tudor beginnings – its chapel was once visited by Henry VIII. Its gardens and woodlands are great to explore, and one of its exhibits is a solid-gold ring dating from the fourth or fifth century which is said to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkein’s ring in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books.
Close view of a gold ring at The Vyne, Basingstoke, Hampshire ©National Trust Images:David Levenson
National Trust Family Admission Pass
A National Trust Family Admission Pass gives you, two children and one other, one free entry to any National Trust place during normal opening times – except for certain properties which are listed on the pass. The passes are valid until 31st December, 2017, and the National Trust has sent me four of them to give away.
How to enter
If you’d like to enter to win a National Trust Family Admission Pass, this is what you need to do.
- In the comments section below, tell me which of the places (either from the list above or from the National Trust website) you’d most like to visit.
- Enter via the Rafflecopter widget below.
- The closing date for entry is Monday 15th May, 2017.
- That’s it – good luck!
Gibside is our favourite lots of space to run about
I love Stourhead! So I’d go there much more often!
Belton House xxx
BrownSea Island
Would love to visit Hill Top but a long way from me so locally Woolsthorpe Manor is a great family day out.
I’ve always wanted to go to the Lake district so visiting there and especially Hill Top would satisfy both my Adult and childhood urges ..BTW Jemima Puddleduck is my favourite character always
would love this!
Would love to visit Lacock Abbey. I’m a big Harry Potter Fan.
Brimham Rocks – I went once years ago and would love to go back!
Brownsy Island, Altho i live in poole never been :O
Blicking hall for me
Brownsea Island
The Lake District area
Chartwell 🙂
Would love to take the grandkids to Dunham Massey
I really like the sound of Brownsea island
i’d like to visit the colby woodland gardens
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire. I went last year for my birthday and I loved it. Would love to go back and do the nature walks too
Lavenham Guildhall looks imposing
Attingham Park – Shrewsbury
I’d love to take my children to Blickling Hall
Lanhydrock in Cornwall! I love the place, its magical!
Brownsea!
Culloden
Brownsea Island looks incredible, to be honest they all look amazing and Id love to go to them all!! What a decent prize!
Hill Top would be so lovely to visit and the garden looks gorgeous!
I would go to Sudbury Hall in Staffordshire – museum of childhood. show my Children the old style toys etc, et they wouldn’t believe it!
Brownsea Island – grew up on the famous five.
Sudbury Hall 🙂
The butterfly conservation in Heddon Valley looks fab x
We would love to visit Antony House, the gardens look delightful.
I would love to visit Dunstanburgh castle, looked it up and omg it looks beautiful. Fab prize Xx
Bateman’s – it looks stunning 🙂
Belton House it’s just up the road from us and have heard amazing things!!
Blickling hall
Hughenden looks really interesting would love to go there
Belton House. It has beautiful gardens and so I would love to visit.
craigside in Northumberland, been a couple of times before but always something new to see there, the gardens are amazing and the dog loves it to
I’ve always wanted to visit Killerton House and Gardens which isn’t too far away from me, just never had the time or money for a visit really so i’d love to win
I visited quite a few of the stately homes in and around Cornwall when I was a child but haven’t ever visited St. Michaels Mount so would like to go there. This would also be a really useful prize for all the parking in national trust car parks at certain beaches we visit. Great prize, thanks for the chance to win.
I’d like to visit Speke Hall with my Daughter as I remember visiting when I was a child.
Love Gibside! Dogs allowed too so don’t have to leave her home alone x
Delaval Hall in Seaton Delaval 🙂
chalke abbey
The vyne looks fabulous! I’m fascinated by everything Tudor!
I would love to visit Scotney Castle as it looks so beautiful.Of course it is one of place which I would love to visit as we recently moved to Kent and it is amazing beautiful place to explore!
We would love to visit Anthony House amongst so many other amazing National Trust properties. We have a 3 year old and a 1 year old so we need somewhere for the children to use their energy up! We are hoping to take them to Cornwall this summer hence my choice – Anthony House. It would be brilliant to win this amazing prize to help keeping our little ones entertained this summer and autumn. ?
I would love to visit Nunnington Hall in beautiful North Yorkshire
I’d love to visit Knole as it’s my closest venue
Brownsea island
Hill Top – my children love Beatrix Potter and it would bring the books to life.
We love Claremont Landscape Garden
Brimham Rocks, we have holidayed near there loads and always say we will go but we’ve never got round to it. Family members have been and love it so I would take my children there
I would love to visit the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire – the house and grounds look fantastic!
Attingham Park
Speke Hall is a beautiful place to visit, I have taken my kids many times. I would love to visit Lacock Abbey and see where they filmed some of the Harry Potter scenes.
As a military family of 7 moving around the UK we would absolutely love to win this wonderful prize ? my 3 year old and I would love to see where Beatrix Potter spent her time relaxing in the idyllic countryside in between writing. Thank you x
As a military family of 7 we are always moving around the country and the National Trust Family admission would be an absolute wonderful prize to our family ? As avid readers and lovers of history there are so many places to visit. My 3 year old would love to visit the hilltop where we could enjoy the idyllic countryside where Beatrix Potter drew inspiration for her writings. Thank you xx
Tyntesfield
Bembridge windmill
Stowe Landscape Gardens. It is such a beautiful place and I would love to share it with my family.
Sudbury Hall
Lyme Park- I’ve always wanted to go since watching the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice! It looks beautiful!
Love Lyme Park.
Colby woodland garden in Pembrokeshire
I’d really like to visit Sudbury Hall
I would love to visit Hill Top. Went years ago but would love to visit again x
I’d like to go to Bateman’s – it’s only up the road so I don’t really have any excuse not to have gone!
Either Waddesdon manor or chatsworth house
WRAY CASTLE
Waddesdon Manor
Brownsea island.
I love visiting Tyntesfield as it’s local
Brownsea Island to see the squirrels
Attingham Park- for all the family 🙂
I have always wanted to go to Hill Top – I love the Lake District and Beatrix Potter has always been my ‘go to’ writer (along with Enid Blyton) for bedtime stories!
I have always wanted to visit Chartwell! I love history!
Hill Top sounds lovely, a nice way to introduce my daughter to Beatrix Potter.
Fantastic prize thank you! From your list it would have to be Lavenham Guildhall, we are huge Potter fans in this house. However I would love to go visit Winchester city mill. It’s a working 18th century corn mill and is fascinating!
We’d love to go to Antony House, we love Alice in wonderland.
The Vyne! Though I’d happily take the kids to any!
The Pineapple, just because I like the name! It looks pretty too.
I’d love to re-visit Mottisfont
Wellington Monument, right by our house and we go so often, it’s a beautiful wooden walk.
I would love to visit Brownsea Island as Dorset is so beautiful.
Brownsea Island
Fountains Abbey
Conniston in the Lakes
Stunning and beautiful
Brownsea Island. We were near there on holiday last summer but somehow didn’t get around to seeing it. It’s top of the list for next time we’re in Dorset!
Knole sounds fab 🙂 Thank you for the giveaway x
brownsea island has always been somewhere i’ve wanted to go
Coniston Water, it looks very picturesque
Well there re just so many to pick from! But I do like the idea of visiting Calke Abbey.
Brownsea Island
I would love to go to Hill Top. I have been before, many years ago so I am due a re-visit. I love the Lake district and never tire of its beauty.
I’d love to visit Hilltop it looks so pretty
Trelissick Gardens in Cornwall
Waddesdon Manor
Brown sea island PLEASE
As a massive Harry Potter fan i would like to go to Lavenham Guildhall, but you would never be short of somewhere beautiful to go to with a National Trust membership.
So difficult to choose but I’m fascinated by the Homewood in Surrey
I’d love to visit Chartwell – it looks so interesting.
Brownsea Island looks lovely
Ashridge Estate in Hertfordshire – reminds me of being a kid!
I would love to go to the lake district and visit Hill Top, see where the famous Beatrix Potter wrote her stories. I would take the family and we would go on the Beatrix Potter trail
Basildon Park looks beautiful so would love to go there first
I would love to see Brownsea Island
I’d love to visit Coniston again but now with my baby girl who’s 6 months old and my husband and show them all the Lake District has to offer. 🙂
Brownsea Island. Would love to see the red squirrels.
Lyme Park, such a beautiful place!
Brownsea Island
Tatton Park as my little boy loves it there!
I’d love to visit Brownsea Island 🙂 I went there once as a child and I remember it was amazing but I don’t remember it – if that makes sense! So I’d love to go back
Chartwell looks amazing! Love the kids getting to these places, happy childhood memories are made.
Stourhead. My mum used to work in the Estates office when she was first married. She talks often about how much she enjoyed having her lunch breaks in the gardens. I’ve never been but of love to go there with her.
I would love to visit St. Michaels Mount in Cornwall
Waddesdon Manor
Brownsea Island x
I want to say all of them as they all offer something great.
However, I will go for Hill Top in the Lake District. We love the Lake District and this would be a great opportunity to visit again.
It like to visit Knole House in Sevenoaks which is about a 20 minute drive from us
Brownsea Island is a place i want to go back to.
Mainy
Would love to visit the Stonehenge Landscape
Would love to visit Rufford Old Hall. It’s local to us and yet we’ve never been!
I’m a Harry Potter fan, so Lavenham Guldhall sounds like a great start. I’d probably also look into properties close to where I live.
I’m a Harry Potter fan so would love to visit Lavenham Guildhall
We love both Killerton and Castle Drogo which are local to us 🙂
I’d love to go to Tatton Park.
Wimpoke Hall would love to take the grandkids love NT houses sweeping around wondering the tales behind every room and all the lives they have seen.
Wimpolevnot wimpoke lol autocorrect at its best
Lavenham Guildhall, I’m a big HP fan!
LOVE BROCKHAMPTON ESTATE, NEAR BROMYARD,IT IS BEAUTIFUL
Powis Castle
I’ve been wanting to visit Beningbrough hall for a while 🙂
I have a subscription to national trust. Would love to win this so I can give it to my dad so they could come with us. We love all the houses. Knowle is next on our list
Croft Castle & Parkland Nr Leominster, Herefordshire. I love stately homes & castles & this combines both!
Hidcote in the Cotswolds
Hill Top because I love the Beatrix Potter books
I’d love to visit Coniston Water, despite having visited the Lakes a number of times it’s a place I’ve never visited
knowle for me i reckon
I would love to visit Chirk Castle, in Wrexham as it looks perfect for a nice family day out.
osterley house
Hill Top in Sawry, Lakes. I’ve never managed to go and I would so love to look around
The vyne or brown sea island
I would love to visit Hill Top!
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire
I want to visit loads, but Calke Abbey is one I’ve wanted to visit for ages!
For me it would have to be the Pineapple gardens in The Walled Garden in Scotland looks beautiful
The vyne My 9 yr old son loves The Hobbit
I’d like to say I’d go somewhere new, but I’d really like to take my family back down to Cornwall where I grew up and visit Antony House. It’s where I had my school leavers prom! Ray x
Avebury Manor & Gardens would be lovely as we all watched it being restored on the television, but would love to see it in real life! ?
Antony House
Cliveden House
Fountains abbey!
standon house is my favourite place to visit
I’d love to visit West Wycombe Park – Dashwood House and Grounds. We visited the West Wycombe Caves recently and saw West Wycombe Park on the way. Would love to go back and visit it.
Abermawr, Pembrokeshire 🙂 I would love to see the bluebells
I’d love to visit Speke Hall, not been since school!
Brimham rocks
Moseley Old Hall – being from this area we all grew up learning about Kind Charles being hidden locally I’d love to go here and see it and I understand they have great activities for the children all year round (and a tea room for me of course!)
I’d love to visit Brownsea Island as I loved the Famous Five books!
Chart well!
brownsea island! i grew up on blyton’s works!
Ham house
I would love to visit Hill Top and Coniston Water. As a child, we used to spend a week in the Lake District visiting these places 🙂
Knole in Kent
Brownsea island. We’ve done corfe castle and kingston lacy recently. I’d love to see the red squirrels and peacocks there and as my boys are in Scouts and beavers, would be a perfect day to show them where it started
i would love to visit speke hall
Knole House because it’s local but I’ve never been.
Wimpole as would love to see the rare breed farm
I would like to visit Waddesdon Manor as I have heard good things about it
I’d love to visit Brownsea Island, I have never been even though I live relatively close
Nostell Priory
I would really like to visit Hill Top as I adore Beatrix Potter and it looks beautiful 🙂
There some lovely properties in the lake district, I’d love to visit beatrix potters house
Baddesley Clinton
I’d love to go back to Dunstanburgh Castle or visit Gibside or Cragside.
We’d like to visit Cragside near Rothbury in Northumberland. A journey through time to see the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity.
I would love to take my Granddaughter to Hill Top in the Lake district they are avid Beatrix Potter fans love all her books and we are collecting the 50p Beatrix Potter coins its somewhere i have never been and would love to take them 🙂
Knole in Kent
Cliveden
I’d love to visit Hill Top, sounds lovely!
Brownsea island looks great
Hill Top
I love Fell Foot park, its a brilliant day out with the family, we would definitely go more often with a pass
Bateman’s – although there’s a fair few I’d love to visit and some already ticked off the list
Chirk Castle….been ages since we visited there 🙂
St.michaels mount
St Michael’s mount in Cornwall
Mount Stewart, as it recently underwent a £8m refurbishment
I would like to visit Lanhydrock, it has a wonderful house and gardens to visit
National Trust – Tatton Park looks amazing fab giveaway thankyou x
Weavers’ Cottage
http://www.nts.org.uk/Visit/Weavers-Cottage/
I’d love to visit the Slindon Estate, a great way to get some fresh air.
Oh wow! I need to see more of the treasures of this country!
I love visiting the Lake District but we have yet to make it down to Ambleside so I would love to make that our next destination xx
St Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Cornwall
So many National Trust Properties I want to visit but Sissinghurst Castle is on the top of my list
Coniston water would be lovely as I really love the lake district
I’d like visit Fountains Abby – because we went there once, in the summer and it was really lovely and the kids really enjoyed it. Plus, they got to learn a little bit about history. We love the National Trust! Lovely prize, thank you!
Fountains abbey. It is fairly local but we have never been.
Brownsea Island, love it there
would love to go to Highclere Castle
I’d love to go to Bodiam Castle, that would definitely be the first place on our list!
I would love to go to Lyme Park. Some friends went recently and said it was great for kids.
I’d like to visit Dunham Massey.
Blickling Hall
osterley house
The Vyne
Well we’ve visited Knole, plus most of the properties in East Anglia and Kent, and I could quite fancy Batemans, but I’ve always wanted to go to Hill House! I used to work in travel and the Lake District tours were my responsibility, yet I’ve never been! Having said this, there are so many on my list to visit!
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It has to be Hill Top.
Childhood memories that I’m slowly passing onto our little boy. He’s of an age now where he’s understanding and showing interest in things, so Hill Top would be a perfect stop on a Lake District visit along with the museum.
Caroline.
would love to go to Highclere Castle this would be amazing what a brilliant day out this would be and memory to keep
I’d love to follow to the Vyne. Not only is it relatively close to me but I would love to see that ring (huge fan of the books as a kid!)
Dunstanburgh Castle Northumberland.
I’d love to visit Lindisfarne Castle 🙂
I would like to visit Beatrix Potter’s house in the Lake District………and many more besides 🙂
Formby beach is just lovely. Great walks, picnics and red squirrels
We love Chirk Castle so we’d head there first
I love to visit Charlcotte Park near Stratford on Avon.
Brownsea Island – hoping to tick that one off the list later in the year!
Oh there are so many I would love to go to some for a repeat visit and some new ones! I am planning a visit to the Lake District so Hill Top and Coniston Water are on the list
I’d love to visit Lacock Abbey!
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire
I would like to go to Lyme Park
I’d go to Bodnant to see the laburnum arch
Hill Top, Jemima Puddleduck was my favourite book as a child!
Brownsea Island
St michaels mount , cornwall
Coughton Court in Alcester would be a favourite venue to visit, wonderful house and beautifu grounds makes it an easy place to explore and spend a day.
Sudbury Hall
Brownsea Island for us!
The Vyne look very interesting.
Tough to choose but would pick Coniston Water to visit first
I’d like to visit Clumber Park, it’s not too far away from where I live but we’re yet to make it over there
Marsden Moor Estate, just up the road and we’ve never been!
So many places I’ve never been but really want to go! Bath, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds. But I’d probably pick to take a wander around the Treasurer’s House in York. It looks like a beaut!
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alfriston monk’s house (i think that’s what it’s called!) it was the first property the trust acquired and is near me
I would love to go to Coniston Water x
i would like to see the ones local to me, around warwickshire, there are some lovely places.
we would love to go to Knole , Sevenoaks, Kent. Thank you
Chartwell sounds good
I would like to go back to Tintagel with my little boy as he has never been there before!
Sutton hoo,its right on our doorstep but there is a charge just to go in the car park.Its such a shame as I know I would use the shop regularly for gifts.
We’d love to visit ‘Hill Top’ – Beatrix Potter’s former dwelling in the beautiful Lake District…it’s just such an inspiring part of the country.
The Steam Yacht Gondola in Coniston
Polesden Lacey
Bateman’s looks really lovely. I’d also love to visit Aberconwy House in Wales.
I would love to visit The Vyne, Hampshire
Felbrigg Hall, Gardens and Estate looks like a great visit.
would love to visit
National Trust – Birmingham Back to Backs
I’d love visit Basingstoke ???
Erm…that’s not a National Trust place, as far as I know!
Croome Court – it’s not far from us and we haven’t been there for years.
Treasurers House, York
It would have to be Brownsea Island for me – it’s been on my “to visit” list for years!
I’d love to visit Hill top, I’m a fan of Beatrix Potter
WOULD LOVE TO VISIT DORSET
Me too – but that’s not a National Trust place (although there are some in the county)!
We’re going to Suffolk later this year so it’d be great to visit Lavenham Guildhall, I do love anything Harry Potter.
Me too – good luck!
Sudbury Hall
Brownsea Island
Lacock Abbey! We live fairly locally and would love to check it out.
I’d love to visit Nymans in Sussex
Batemans for me
Scotney, Bodium and Sissinghurst are all on my list, I’d love to go back to Ightham aswell though. I’m such a history geek though I’d be happy at any of them!
Stourhead
Wallington Hall! The kids love the tree climbing tree and all the parks, especially the one with the train. We haven’t been for ages and would love to go again!
i’d love to go to Hill Top one day as my kids love her books and we love Mount Stewart!
knole
ham house
Hilltop House
I never got to do it when I went to the Lake district. Really feel like I missed out.
Waddesdon Manor looks lovely!
Would love to visit Brownsea Island
I’d like to Lyme Park as it has a hug adventure playground for the kids and great ice cream!
I would love to visit hill top
Brownsea island sounds amazing x
Wakehurst place for us. Used to go with my nan as a child and would love to take my kids
coniston water
Orford Ness – such an intriguing place.
Erddig hall
I’d love to visit Rudyard Kipiling’s house and Chartwell – which I used to pass driving to work every day !!
Great comp Gretta – thanks xx
You’re welcome Swazi – thanks for entering, and good luck! x
Brown Sea Island
I’d like to go to Knole in Kent
I’d love to return to Watersmeet in Devon. I went a few years ago and it was so beautiful.
Belton house
There are so many places I’d like to visit.
Lanhydrock House
Porthor
I’d love to visit Calke Abbey, which has fascinated me ever since it was discovered virtually untouched in the 1980s.
I’d like to visit Northey Island in Essex, not a million miles away but I’ve never been.
We are hoping to go to the Lake District in the summer hols, so Hill Top & Coniston Water are top of my list.
We walk around Knole park a few times a year and would love to go in Knole House.
Blickling Hall.
Mount Grace Priory would be my choice – thanks
Powis Castle – my Mum is always on about going there
Brownsea Isalnd to see the squirrels
I would like to visit Hill Top – always wanted to visit Beatrix Potter’s former cottage looks lovely
Audley End House
Bembridge windmill Looks great
Knole house x
I’ve always wanted to visit Sudbury Hall, but it’s a bit of a drive and we’ve just never got around to it. I think my daughters would love it! 🙂
Chatsworth house
Devil’s Dyke as usually by pass so many sights on the way to Brighton.
Antony House in Cornwall, we have just started to explore Cornwall, absolutely magical x
Would love to go to Dyrham Park which is a lovely place to visit
Hill Top sounds lovely. I’ve wanted to go to the Lake District for a long time.
Lyme Park, been wanting to go there for ages….. 🙂
Brownsea Island – I haven’t been there since I was a child
Oooh. The Vyne looks amazing. Must go
would love a day out at sudbury hall 🙂
We’re taking our children to The Lake District for the first time this year and we’d love to see Hill Top and learn more about Beatrix Potter.
Polesden Lacey in Surrey as I have never been and love anything linked to royalty
Snowdonia xxx
I would be going to Hagley Hall
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Wray Castle in Cumbria
Fab competition so many wonderful places on your door step
Dinefwr Park – would love to visit the castle there
Newark Park. I’ve always wanted to see it.
I’ve been to National Trust properties 100s of miles away, including some in Northern Ireland, but I’ve never been to The Vyne, even though it’s only 30 minutes away from my home! So that’s my pick!
Great – let m know if you see the ring!
Will do!
Sudbury Hall
Brownsea Island to see red squirrels.
We’d love to go to Brownsea Island, my children love the famous five!
Wrest Park please ?
Brimham rocks – it looks fascinating.
Bembridge windmill
Stourhead
I’d love to visit Blicking Hall estate with my children.
Would like to visit Ashridge Estate with my family
I’d love to take my children back to Sudbury Hall (Childhood Museum). We went a few years ago and they really enjoyed it. It was wonderful to see all the ‘old’ toys we used to play with and be able to show them to our own children.
I’ve always wanted to go to Hill Top but never got round to it.
Antony House in Cornwall would be perfect for a family day out!
I’d like to go to lyme park.
Brown sea island as I’ve never been to Dorset
Brownsea island. I’m a big Enid Blyton fan
What a lovely competition. I’ve been to some of these. But every year we go to the Lake District and I would love to take my daughters to make better use of Coniston Water and also to see Hilltop again with an excuse to talk about the amazing work the National Trust has done in protecting the most wonderful houses and landscapes in the UK. Nicola
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Thanks Nicola – good luck!
I’d love to visit Chartwell! My dog would love it there