Homes and Gardens
Paul Whittle is an experienced raconteur who has talked on a variety of subjects to the members of Ash u3a. During 2025 he has been visiting Stately Homes and Gardens throughout the country, and on a dreary November afternoon he came to Ash Vale to give us a much appreciated, and well-illustrated, talk on some of the United Kingdom’s most beautiful Homes and Gardens. A list of places visited is below.
Places visited
Sandringham House – Norfolk
Bressingham Gardens – Norfolk
Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Garden – Dorset
Kingston Lacey (NT) – Dorset
Badbury Rings – Dorset
Lea Hurst (Pte House. Florence Nightingale’s Home) – Derbyshire
Hardwick Halls (NT)(EH) – Derbyshire
Dorney Court – Buckinghamshire
Chastleton House (NT) – Oxfordshire
Frogmore House – Berkshire
Leeds Castle – Kent
Alnwick Castle – Northumberland
Audley End House (EH) – Suffolk
Hartwell House (NT) – Buckinghamshire
Highgrove House – Gloucestershire
Keukenhof Bulb – Gardens Netherlands
Goddards – Surrey
Dunrobin Castle – Sutherland, Scotland
Portmeirion Village – Gwynedd, Wales
Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens – West Sussex
Sezincote House – Gloucestershire
Exbury Gardens – Hampshire