Historic Houses Yorkshire: Burton Constable Hall
Burton Constable Hall in East Yorkshire has been home to the Constable family for over 400 years. Three hundred acres of parkland, designed by Capability Brown, surround the fine Elizabethan country house. Our first visit to Burton Constable Hall was in mid-June 2020, as the coronavirus lockdown was being eased. Unfortunately the Hall itself was […]
Historic Houses Yorkshire: Harewood House
Harewood House, situated halfway between Leeds and Harrogate, was built in the 1760s by Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, to the design of John Carr and Robert Adam and with landscaping by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. I had often driven past the entrance to the Harewood House estate when I was in the Leeds area, but […]