Recommendations for National Trust properties to visit.

Gibside Rowlands Gill worth a visit if you like walking. Also Wallington Hall. Both on North East.

Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire and then when you ve been there you can visit the lovely spa town of Harrogate and go walking in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales x

I loved the gardens of Osborne House, Isle of Wight but very underwhelmed by the house

Kingston Lacy Dorset is lovely, lots of super places to visit. Barrington Court, Montacute, Laycock just work your way round as many as you can

Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast is worth a visit. The east coast of Scotland has loads of castles, houses with good gardens and the scenery on the coast is beautiful.

I completely forgot about The Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate but I agree with another poster, maybe there aren't any bad NT places to report!

Burghley is worth a visit too but obviously that isn't NT either but Stamford is also so lovely, so you could make a weekend of it or longer.

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Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire is lovely. Beautiful gardens.

If heading towards Derbyshire, I recommend Lyme Park on Cheshire border) , they filmed some of Pride and Prejudice there and the gardens are stunning. Also, not far from Manchester airport is Quarry Bank Mill. You can look around the mills and on certain days they have demonstrations and you can have a tour of the apprentice house which is really interesting and the staff are in character.
In Staffordshire, there’s Biddulph Grange. The gardens are something else!

I would happily live at Standen near East Grinstead, West Sussex. A fabulous Arts and Craft family house with original William Morris wallpaper etc. Really lovely grounds.

I also love Chartwell. I have been twice to Castle Drogo on Dartmoor, a Lutyens design and the last castle to be built in England. Commissioned by the family that were Home and Colonial stores.

Lots of super recommendations here - clearly ladies of taste! Cragside is gorgeous, Lanhydrock and Cotehele ooze tranquility, while Castle Drogo is on my bucket list for a third visit, now the works are completed.

Shugborough was the scene of an early date with now-DW Ashcombe, and her friend worked there.

I come from the SouthEast, so must nominate two open spaces there - Box Hill and Leith Hill, the latter the highest point in Southern England at 960 ft, both NT-maintained. Gorgeous views over the Weald to the South Downs.

Finally, in Kent, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which Vita Sackville West created, and I think is the most visited of all the NT gardens. Proud boast - late first wife and I delivered a load of rotted horse manure to The Gardener there - whereupon she asked for more!

Yes, Coleton Fishacre is near me. Castle Drogo is another favourite, also in Devon.

Another vote for Chartwell in Kent. I also loved Coleton Fishacre in Devon.

Greyduster

Lucca Hardwick is, but Haddon, like Chatsworth is family owned. I love Haddon - it has the most beautiful long gallery of any house in England and is completely timeless.

Sorry to go OT, but I agree.

It must be nearly 50 years since I last went to Haddon.. We used to take visitors there when we lived in S.Yorks. It was not much visited but so magical and interesting. Its long abandonment by the family added to the atmosphere.

I expect it's much more commercialised now. I wonder if I'd be disappointed if I went back again

If you are travelling south there are some lovely properties in Bucks:. Waddesdon, Ascott, Stowe, Claydon House and many more.

We had a holiday home near sheringham and loved it in Sheringham park .the walks are beautiful and the rhododendrins are something to see may to June. Also nearby is felbrigg hall which is also a lovely house and walks gardens a few miles inland is blickling hall which has lakes grounds walks and a beautiful house . Plenty to see I n Norfolk .

Chatsworth in Derbyshire, not an NT property but worth a visit none the less.

Yet another vote for Cragside.

Seems strange to see people recommend Lyme Park/House. I was born in Stockport and it was just a place down the road to us, beautiful though it is.

Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, the home of Rudyard Kiplings's daughter. Worth it , just to see the shower room! Also has a farm attached with rare breeds of animals
Waddesdon, the home of the Rothschilds - if you like bling, that's the place to go !

It would be easier to list those not recommended - if there are any! They all have something to commend them.
Ones I wouldn't return to are Castle Drogo in Devon, and Keddleston Hall, Derbyshire, unless you like grand tour statues.

Gosh, so many favourites! Tyntesfield near Bristol is quite amazing, a very interesting building with a great story behind it & splendid grounds; Bodnant gardens near Llandudno; Erdigg near Wrexham - fascinating history; Croome Park near Worcester - magnificent House, recently refurbished and a delightful park; Coleton Fishacre in Devon, once home to the D'Oyly Carte family; Hidcote Gardens near Chipping Camden..I could go on for ever!! I'm sure you'll be able to plan several holidays with all these ideas!!

Sorry I didn’t see your second post.

Lucca Hardwick is, but Haddon, like Chatsworth is family owned. I love Haddon - it has the most beautiful long gallery of any house in England and is completely timeless.

One of our favourites is Chartwell, the home of Winston Churchill. Well worth a visit.

Ignore that . I meant Haddon!