| Description |
xii, 426 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: THE NATIONAL TRUST GUIDE -- Properties not described in the Text 374 -- Useful Addresses 395 -- Maps 396 -- Index 412 |
| Summary |
The National Trust Guide is the only fully comprehensive guide to these properties, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, with maps for ease of reference. The second edition, published in 1989, has now been completely revised and updated. Making their first appearance are recent acquisitions that illustrate the variety of the National Trust's work: the great eighteenth-century landscape gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire; 7 Blyth Grove, an Edwardian semi-detached house in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, that is virtually unchanged since it became the home of the Straw family in 1923; Patterson's Mill, the last working water-driven spade mill in Ireland; and 2 Willow Road, the architect Erno Goldfinger's modernist house in Hampstead, London, with its fascinating twentieth-century art collection |
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The National Trust has recently celebrated its centenary. Set up by three far-sighted Victorians in 1895 to protect places of historic interest or natural beauty, it has over the past hundred years grown from a tiny group into one of the world's leading conservation organisations. The Trust now looks after over 500,000 acres of coast and countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 200 historic houses and 150 great gardens, with the support of over 2.4 million members, and a huge number of volunteers who put in over a million hours of help each year. The National Trust is full of surprises, for as well as the houses, gardens and countryside, it looks after all kind of oddities, such as Gondola, a Victorian, Venetian-style steam yacht that plies Coniston Water in Cumbria, and the rock houses of Kinver Edge in Staffordshire, until recently home to a cave-dwelling community |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
National Trust (Great Britain) -- Guidebooks.
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Historic buildings -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks.
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Historic sites -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks.
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| Author |
Trinick, Michael.
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National Trust (Great Britain)
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| LC no. |
97108464 |
| ISBN |
070780261X (National Trust) |
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0810963353 (Abrams) |
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