Amazing National Trust houses and parks

Unfortunately, I'm very busy so I'm not able to write in details about the visited houses. However, I would like to show all of the houses that we have visited last autumn and this spring.

Basildon

Lord and Lady Iliffe restored this Georgian mansion which was badly damaged during the Second World War.

Obviously, the kitchenware wasn't restored: it is from the fifties.

After the visiting you can take a walk in the huge park.

The Vyne

I have "felt the history" at all of the visited places. However, this house made the deepest impression on me. Maybe its tight corridors, small rooms and the amazing oak gallery caused this feeling - I don't know.

Talk with one of the enthusiastic volunteers:

The door of the gallery:

One of the fantastic oak carvings:

There is a golden ring in the library which was found at Silchester in 1786. It has recently been suggested that it was the inspiration for the One Ring and the Lord of the Rings. The ring linked to a curse tablet at the site of a Roman temple dedicated to the god Nodens. Tolkien worked on the etymology of the name Nodens and repeatedly visited the temple in 1929. His novel The Hobbit was published in 1937.

Of course, there is a huge and beautiful garden:

Hughenden

I loved Benjamin Disraeli's house. It wasn't the history that I felt but his unique personality. He was a leading statesman, a writer and a loving husband.

Mrs Disraeli's diary entry is on the blind - it is very romantic: "Dizzy married me for my money. But if he had the chance again, he would marry me for love."

There are two possible stories about this chairs below. One of them has shorter legs. It's said that when Queen Victoria visited her favorite minister, he ordered to cut them because she was very short. The other story is more romantic: he ordered to cut his chair's legs so he wasn't taller than the Queen. I think neither of them are true because the difference between the chairs is really slightly. It is more likely that they had to cut due to a damage. Of course, my version isn't too interesting.

During the Second World War there was a shelter in the cellar and a bunker in the ice house.

After visit the house, we took a walk in the woodland.

I am going to show 4 other National Trust properties in my next entry.