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28 unusual facts about National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty


Anna Pavord

She is a member of the Gardens Panel for English Heritage and chairs the Gardens Panel of the National Trust.

Arden, Warwickshire

It is located at the southern end of the frontage of Coughton Court and is owned by the National Trust.

Ardress, County Armagh

It is run by the National Trust and contains excellent examples of 18th century furniture and a good display of paintings.

Ben Harms

Uppark, a stately home in West Sussex was gutted by fire in 1989, and restored in 1994 in the National Trust's largest renovation project.

Birmingham Back to Backs

The Birmingham Back to Backs (also known as Court 15) at 50–54 Inge Street and 55–63 Hurst Street are the last surviving court of back-to-back houses in Birmingham, England, now operated as a museum by the National Trust.

Bury Castle, Somerset

Bury Castle is today protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument and owned by the National Trust.

Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronets

In the 20th century the family fell on harder times and they gave Charlecote Park to the National Trust.

Ectoedemia heckfordi

It is only known from Devon in Great Britain, having been discovered in 2004 at the National Trust's Hembury Woods by amateur naturalist Bob Heckford, for whom it is named.

Edmond James de Rothschild

A portion of his art collection was bequeathed to his son James A. de Rothschild and is now part of the National Trust collection at Waddesdon Manor.

Ferguson's Gang

Ferguson's Gang, formed in 1927, was an anonymous and somewhat enigmatic group that raised funds for the National Trust during the period from 1930 until 1947.

Hatchlands Park

Hatchlands Park was passed to the National Trust by a grandson of Lord Rendel and is open to the public, but closed in the winter months.

James Armand de Rothschild

When he died in 1957, he bequeathed Waddesdon Manor to the National Trust.

Jirō Osaragi

This led to the foundation of the Japan National Trust, modeled after the National Trust in Great Britain, and which has been successful in preserving the historical ambience of Kamakura and parts of other cities around Japan.

Johanna Angermeyer

After twenty years in Ecuador and the Galapagos, Johanna and her husband moved to England where they worked on a remote manor-house on the moors of Cumbria, managed gourmet cruises on barges floating through Europe and finally landed a job with the National Trust, caring for stately homes across the country.

John Guinness

He was also a member of the East Anglia Regional Committee of the National Trust from 1989 to 1994.

Kate Felus

From 1996 to 2001 Kate was Garden Historian at Stowe, the 18th-century landscape garden, where the National Trust is undertaking a massive restoration programme begun in 1990.

Marquess of Lothian

The family also owned a larger Scottish seat, Newbattle Abbey, which is now a college, and also Blickling Hall in Norfolk, which belongs to the National Trust.

Montacute Castle

The site is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.

Parks and open spaces in London

Open space in the rest of the city is dominated by the remaining three Royal Parks and many other parks and open spaces of a range of sizes, run mainly by the local London boroughs, although other owners include the National Trust and the City of London Corporation.

Rayleigh Castle

The National Trust who manage the site have no plans to remove the trees for fear of disturbing any potential archaeology below.

Swiss cottage, Cahir

Armagh (National Trust); and the Petit hameau de la Reine at Versailles.

The Troubles in Strangford

10 February 1973 - Leonard O'Hanlon (23) and Vivienne Fitzsimmons (17), both Catholic members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, were killed in a premature bomb explosion in the grounds of Castle Ward National Trust Estate, near Strangford.

University of Cambridge legends

The college is sometimes suggested to be the second, third or fourth wealthiest landowner in the UK (or in England) — after the Crown Estate, the National Trust and the Church of England.

Washington Old Hall

In 1957 the National Trust assumed responsibility for the building.

Wightwick

The house is now in the hands of the National Trust.

Wightwick Manor

The house was presented to the National Trust by Sir Geoffrey Mander under the Country Houses Scheme in 1937.

Willington Dovecote and Stables

Willington Dovecote & Stables is a National Trust property located in Willington, near Bedford, Bedfordshire, England.

Wordsworth House

Wordsworth House is a Georgian townhouse situated in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust.


A3055 road

The section from Brook to Freshwater Bay is a clearway, so stopping on this section is only permitted at the five car parking areas, of which one is free, and the rest are operated with a charge to those who are not members of the National Trust.

All Saints Church, Wraxall

The large churchyard contains several monuments to the Gibbs family which owned the nearby Tyntesfield Estate, which has recently been purchased by the National Trust following the death of Baron Wraxall.

Anna Dean

Dean has worked as an assistant to a psychologist, she has worked for the National Trust, she has taught Creative Writing and worked for the Wordsworth Trust at Grasmere in the Lake District.

Bexley

The house has been acquired by the National Trust and is open to the public, the house is not fully furnished, but the original features and furniture by Morris and Philip Webb, stained glass and paintings by Burne-Jones, the bold architecture and a garden designed to 'clothe the house are still available to view.

Boarstall Duck Decoy

The Boarstall Duck Decoy is a 17th-century duck decoy located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now a National Trust property.

Chiddingstone

Chiddingstone is unique in that, apart from the church and the Castle, the entire village is owned by the National Trust.

Chipping Campden

There are two famous and historic gardens nearby: at Hidcote Manor Garden, owned and managed by the National Trust, and at Kiftsgate, in private ownership but open to the public.

Claife

At Low Wray is Wray Castle, a 19th-century house and grounds now owned by the National Trust.

Cockayne, North Yorkshire

The overwhelming part of the 1925 acre Bransdale estate was transferred to the National Trust through National Land Fund procedures in 1972 and comprises all the farmland and a small amount of woodland in the valley.

Dorothy de Rothschild

After his death in 1957, Waddesdon Manor was bequeathed to the National Trust, but the surrounding estate and small mansion at Eythrope in Buckinghamshire were retained by Mrs. de Rothschild and bequeathed to her husband's great nephew Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild.

Earl of Enniskillen

He and his American second wife Nancy (a former junior diplomat with the United States Foreign Service) lived at Florence Court (newly restored by the National Trust) in south-west County Fermanagh from 1963 until 1972, when they moved over to Kinloch House in Kinloch in Perthshire, Scotland.

Hanbury, Worcestershire

The National Trust’s Hanbury Hall was built by the wealthy chancery lawyer Thomas Vernon in the early 18th century.

Hardknott Roman Fort

The fort is on land owned by the National Trust, part of the Trust's Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon property, and maintained by English Heritage.

Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire

The house is part of the Hartwell Estate owned by the Ernest Cook Trust, and since 2008 has been leased to The National Trust.

Hidcote Manor Garden

Created by Lawrence Johnston, it is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.

Hopegill Head

The crags, which are owned by the National Trust, are the only location in England of Viscaria alpina, the red alpine catchfly.

Jubilee Bunt-a-thon

It was created in association with the National Trust to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

Kiftsgate Court Gardens

It is a few hundred yards from the Hidcote Manor Garden owned by the National Trust.

Lyme Caxton Missal

The missal was purchased in 2008 by the National Trust at a cost of £465,000, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Art Fund, and other organisations.

Marsden railway station

The station's former goods yard is now the headquarters of the National Trust's Marsden Moor Estate, and the goods shed contains a public exhibition, Welcome to Marsden, which gives an overview of the area and its transport history.

Museum Piece

#The exterior of the museum was actually Oxburgh Hall, a National Trust property in Norfolk.

Over Alderley

Alderley Lodge was built in the 19th century for the Brocklehurst family; it sits next to the National Trust land at Hare Hill.

Ralph Tollemache

He also inherited Ham House, which he gave to the National Trust in 1948.

Rhossili

Scenes from Torchwood: Miracle Day were filmed at the National Trust's Old Rectory cottage in Rhossili Bay.

Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow

The family seat was Clandon Park, East and West Clandon, Surrey the centrepiece of which, a National Trust mansion and gardens was for the most part commissioned by his father.

Samuel Middleton Fox

The two homes belonged to his Falmouth grandparents, Sarah (born Lloyd) and Alfred Fox, who had a house in Falmouth called Woodhouse Place and a coastal residence and garden called Glendurgan (now a National Trust property).

Speaker's State Coach

On 4 March 2011, Speaker Bercow announced that the coach would go on display at the National Trust’s Arlington Court Carriage Museum in Devon.

Styal railway station

The station is on Station Road 110 m from the edge of the National Trust Quarry Bank Mill/Styal Estate and 600 m from Styal Women's Prison and Young Offenders Institute.

The Johnson Gang

Notable thefts include Waddesdon Manor on 10 June 2003, a National Trust property and former Rothschild family residence near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.

Troutbeck, South Lakeland

It is a conservation area and includes the National Trust property of Townend.

Villa Della Porta Bozzolo

It was donated by the heirs of the Italian senator and pathologist Camillo Bozzolo to the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano—the National Trust of Italy—who now manage it.