DESTINATIONS NATIONAL TRUST UK & IRELAND


to other key locations including the Whispering Wood, and Baelor Battle. Visitors can take a cycle tour of the filming locations or make like Jon Snow and fire arrows in full costume on the original archery range film set. Book it: Belfast is an hour’s drive from Castle Ward – book a three-night break at the city- centre Europa Hotel with Osprey Holidays from £339, including flights from Gatwick. ospreyholidays.com Or try: The sight of Colin Firth striding towards a grand mansion in a wet shirt made a generation fall in love with Jane Austen. In the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Pemberley was in reality the National Trust’s Lyme Park in Cheshire. After walking around the famous lake – we wouldn’t recommend jumping in – visitors can head to the house, try on Regency costumes and even have a game


of billiards, imagining they’re Darcy and Elizabeth. Book a stay at the nearby Hallmark Hotel Manchester in Wilmslow. Great Little Breaks offers two nights with breakfast and one dinner from £111 per person. greatlittlebreaks.com


w BEST FOR GARDENS Green fingers will start twitching if you mention Bodnant Garden to plant-loving clients. The 80-acre garden in Conwy, North Wales, was developed by five generations of one family. Victorian plant hunters brought back many exotic species, and the garden’s collections of rhododendron, magnolia, cedars and redwoods are renowned. The design is also famous, from its curving laburnum arch to The Far End, a wild, lakeside garden only recently restored and reopened. Book it: Just Go! Holidays offers a range of tours in association


ABOVE: Lyme Park, Cheshire


with the National Trust and Bodnant Gardens is one of the highlights of the five-day Castles and Gardens of Medieval Wales, which starts from £600 and also includes visits to the Trust’s Erddig, Chirk Castle, Plas Newydd and Powis Castle. justgoholidays.com Or try: At Sissinghurst Castle in


Kent, the poet Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created the quintessential English garden, with tumbles of roses and honeysuckle, fragrant herbs and an apple orchard. Visit on Kirker Holidays’ four-night Houses, Galleries and Gardens of Sussex and Kent, from £1,143. kirkerholidays.com


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PICTURE: NATIONAL TRUST IMAGES/ARNHEL DE SERRA


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