Blickling Estate, NorfolkBlickling’s Jacobean mansion and ancient yew hedges sit at the heart of a magnificent garden and park in the Bure Meadows.
The lake walk is particularly atmospheric in winter with the reflections and big open skies.Barn owls can be seen hunting across the park and finches can be found marauding through the trees.
Try the accessible multi-use trail, which leads through woodland. Adult £12, child £6.Mottisfont, HampshireSet among riverside gardens, this house and gallery is at its most beautiful with a sprinkling of frost.
Walk through the winter gardens filled with richly coloured dogwood, silvery ornamental bramble and flowering shrubs.Look out for hellebores and mahonia, sweet-smelling winter honeysuckle, witch hazel, viburnum and daphne.
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