Cheshire Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Cheshire? Check out our Cheshire Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Cheshire.
Top Places to visit in Cheshire:
Chester Zoo, Vale Royal Falconry Centre, Land Rover Experience, Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Little Moreton Hall, The Brindley Theatre, Oulton Park Circuit, Chester Cathedral, Lymm Dam, Tegg’s Nose Country Park, Chester City Walls, Macclesfield Paradise Mill, Norton Priory Museum and Gardens, Victoria Park, Quarry Bank Mill
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Places to see in ( Derby - UK )
Places to see in ( Derby - UK )
Derby is an English city on the banks of the River Derwent in Derbyshire. The Derby Silk Mill museum of industry lies in the Derwent Valley. West of the river are the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, home to Joseph Wright paintings, and Gothic Derby Cathedral. Southeast along the river, Derby County Football Club plays at the iPro Stadium. In the northwest, Markeaton Park offers a craft village and a boating lake.
Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. Derby lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, of which it was traditionally the county town.
Derby was settled by Romans – who established the town of Derventio – Saxons and Vikings, who made Derby one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry.
Derby is a centre for advanced transport manufacturing, home to the world’s second largest aero-engine manufacturer, Rolls-Royce, and Derby Litchurch Lane Works, for many years the UK's only train manufacturer. Toyota Manufacturing UK's automobile headquarters is south west of the city at Burnaston.
Alot to see in ( Derby - UK ) such as :
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Calke Abbey
Pickford's House Museum
Donington Park
National Tramway Museum
Heights of Abraham
Kedleston Hall
Derby Cathedral
Derby Gaol
Hardwick Hall
Derby Silk Mill
Staunton Harold Reservoir
Haddon Hall
Derby Arboretum
Donington Grand Prix Exhibition
Melbourne Hall
Markeaton Park
Elvaston Castle Country Park
Darley Park
Foremark Reservoir
Alvaston Park
Genting Casino Riverlights
Locko Park
Allestree Park
Erewash Museum
Chaddesden Park
Duffield Castle, Derbyshire
East Midlands Aeropark
Donington Grand Prix Collection
The Derby Ram Statue
Normanton Park
Straws Bridge
( Derby - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Derby . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Derby - UK
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HOLKHAM HALL, Norfolk, England - (Dix Trips - Vol.44)
Holkham Hall is one of England's 10 great treasure houses. This award-winning Dix Trips episode obtained permission to get a personal behind the scenes look at the Hall and its treasures and learn about some of its history.
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DIX TRIPS is an award-winning docuseries that has shot in 19 countries and 13 U.S. States. In the series film-director Nigel Dick ferrets out unusual and intriguing places to visit around the world. Find more at
Let's have a pint in... DERBY! (UK) - Travel Review!
Hi everybody! Welcome to the next travel review in the Let's have a pint series, where I'll be travelling to different places, touring, sightseeing and having a nice cold pint. This series is a travel series in which I review and rate the places I visit based on several criterion. We look at the positives and negatives of each place, as well as discussing fails, awesomeness and booze. Be sure to subscribe if you enjoyed this review and let me know of any places you'd like to see reviewed. This is also the first video using the new format. Let me know what you think!
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Walking On History
Lapicida has strong associations with members of the British royalty and aristocracy. ‘Walking on History’ features Lady Henrietta Spencer Churchill of Blenheim Palace, the Duchess of Rutland of Belvoir Castle and the Clifford Newbold of Wentworth Woodhouse. In this documentary, they discuss their historic homes, share their thoughts on design and appreciate Lapicida’s unique understanding of reclaimed natural stone.
Clarion Collection Hotel Makeney Hall, UK.
A Victorian country mansion in the heart of Derbyshire, the Clarion Collection Hotel Makeney Hall is surrounded by the most breathtaking countryside, most notably the nearby Peak District National Park. Chatsworth House, Haddon Hall and Kedleston Hall are just several of the great historic houses within easy driving distance of our Belper hotel. There are also the charming market towns of Bakewell, Buxton and Ashbourne to discover. Alton Towers Theme Park will appeal to children of all ages and sports fans will appreciate horse racing at Uttoxeter and motor racing at Donnington Park.
Conveniently located for Derby, our Belper hotel comprises 46 beautifully-styled bedrooms including feature rooms, suites and four-posters. With its civil license, imposing architecture, superbly landscaped grounds and views across the Amber Valley, the Clarion Collection Hotel Makeney Hall is an extremely popular and one of the most idyllic environments for your dream wedding day, with the convenience of having your ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening reception all under one roof.
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Calke Abbey NT Ticknal Visit South Derbyshire The National Forest England UK Tourist Information
Places to visit in South Derbyshire and The National Forest, England, UK
Swadlincote Tourist Information Centre has commissioned a set of videos promoting History and Heritage venues within the local area. All of the music contained on the video was composed and recorded by Local composer Matthew Rhodes.
LOTHERTON HALL NEAR LEEDS
LOTHERTON HALL
Lamport Hall
A View of Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire,England in August 2013.
Hanbury Hall Worcestershire.
Hanbury Hall was built by the wealthy chancery lawyer Thomas Vernon in the early 18th century. Thomas Vernon was the great grandson of the first Vernon to come to Hanbury, Worcestershire, Rev Richard Vernon (1549–1628). Rev Richard and his descendants slowly accumulated land in Hanbury, including the manor, bought by Edward Vernon in 1630, but it was Thomas through his successful legal practice who added most to estates, which amounted to nearly 8,000 acres (32 km2) in his successor Bowater Vernon’s day.
Hanbury Hall is thought to stand on the site of the previous mansion, Spernall Hall, and Thomas Vernon first describes himself as ‘of Hanbury Hall’ in 1706, and this and other evidence leads to a likely completion date of about 1706. The date of 1701 above the front door is thought to be a Victorian embellishment, but no building accounts are known to exist.
Although Hanbury Hall appears to be of a very uniform style, the rear wall is clearly of a different and rather earlier style, and may mark the first phase of a building campaign when Thomas Vernon and his wife Mary first came into possession of Spernall Hall in 1692 when his bachelor uncle John Vernon died.
A notable feature of Hanbury Hall is the painting of the staircase, hall ceiling, and other rooms by the English painter Sir James Thornhill. They include a small representation of Rev Henry Sacheverell being cast to the furies – this relates to an incident in 1710 when Sacheverell, a Tory, was put on trial for sedition by the Whig government, and dates the paintings to that year. The focus of the paintings around the stairwell is the life of the Greek hero Achilles, as told by a range of classical sources. They are surmounted by a large representation of the Olympian gods on the ceiling.
The original plan of the Hall had a large undivided central hall with the main staircase leading off it, with many rather small rooms in the corner pavilions and north range – the south range was given over mainly to service rooms. The 18th century Worcestershire historian Treadway Nash, in his Collections for the History of Worcestershire, wrote “Here is a large handsome house built by Counsellor Vernon about the year 1710 when a bad style of architecture prevailed; many windows and doors, rooms small, many closets, few arched cellars, large stables and offices in full view, are marks of that time”.
When the heiress Emma Vernon (1754–1818) married Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter in 1776, Cecil clearly was of the same opinion, as he remodelled the interior (other than the great hall) creating larger rooms and enlarging the north east pavilion. On the south façade, having removed a doorway he repositioned all the windows to lie under their first floor equivalent. On the south side there had been large formal gardens, clearly shown in Dougharty’s perspective drawing contained in the estate maps of the 1730s, and Cecil swept all these away (including the farm buildings in front of the Hall) and landscaped the park in the fashion of the time – he would have had contact with Capability Brown when being brought up by his uncle 9th Earl of Exeter at Burghley House.
Following Henry and Emma’s divorce in 1791 the contents were all sold, and the house remained empty until Henry’s death in 1804, when Emma and her third husband, John Phillips, were able to regain possession. As the house had lain unoccupied for so long, many repairs had to be carried out at that time. Emma died in 1818 and left her second cousin, Thomas Shrawley Vernon (1759-1825), as the heir to her estate after the death of her husband John Phillips. Phillips married again and had two daughters in Hanbury before finally moving out in 1829. From then, the eldest son of Emma's heir, Thomas Tayler Vernon (1792–1835), was able to occupy it. His grandson Harry Foley Vernon (1834–1920) MP, was created 1st Baronet of Hanbury in 1885, and was succeeded by his son Sir (Bowater) George Hamilton Vernon (1865–1940), 2nd Baronet. Sir George led an unhappy life, separating from his wife Doris, and spending his last 10 years living with his secretary and companion Ruth Horton, who later changed her name by deed poll to Vernon. During this time the agricultural depression led to a reduction in rental income, and Hanbury Hall suffered a lack of care.
In poor health, Sir George Vernon took his own life in 1940. There were no further heirs to the Baronetcy which became extinct. Sir George's estranged wife was able to move back in after his death, dying there in 1962. In the meantime, negotiations had led to the National Trust having the reversion, and after making essential repairs on Lady Vernon’s death, the hall was let to tenants and opened to the public on a restricted basis. In recent years the hall has been managed more commercially and is now open daily.