The closest Stately home to Olney, Castle Ashby is famed for its gardens with their fine avenues of trees and immaculate lawns. These beautiful Capility Brown designed gardens offer you peace and quiet.
Magnificent Woburn Abbey, featured in the BBC television series, showcases antiques, fine furnishings and works of art by Gainsborough, Van Dyck and Canaletto.
"The English Versailles", this is said to be one of the great houses of Europe. There are superb collections of painings, furniture, tapestries, needlework, carpets, procelain, arms and silver.
The last resting place of Diana Princess of Wales, where the exhibition Diana:A celebration is housed. Includes her famous bridal gown, childhood letters and accounts of her charity work.
This Georgian country house has 18th-century interiors in a lovely setting. It is a National Trust property series of magnificent and unique rococo staterooms with important carvings. Has a museum of Florence Nightingale and Crimean War (Nightingale was a visitor at Claydon).
One of the greatest but least known gardens in England. Wrest Park's formal gardens are set amongst 92 acres and were inspired by Versailles. On the National Cycle Network.
Stunning gardens in a peaceful ten acre site on a hillside extending down from the 17th century stone manor house. Rose, water and herb gardens and a wildflower meadow at its best in June and July.
