The magnificent country houses you can visit from Monday May 17
Stately homes in and around the region that have flipped their signs to open
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Ready to welcome visitors (clockwise, from top) Wassand Hall Gardens; Brodsworth Hall; Lotherton Hall (Image: Wassand Hall/Ian Cleland/Lotherton Hall)
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Residents can now discover for themselves thanks to an initiative from a manor house near Beaminster. Viscount and Viscountess Hinchingbrooke are drawing back the curtain on their lives at Mapperton House. The Viscount and Viscountess, otherwise known as Luke and Julie Montagu, will be welcoming virtual visitors into their home with the launch of Mapperton Live. Mapperton Live is an online membership service filmed and streamed from the medieval manor house. Whilst the aristocrat lifestyle may seem like a glamorous and luxurious one, the reality can be quite different with leaking roofs, decaying tapestries and ‘eye-watering’ repair bills. Julie Montagu said: “We’re incredibly lucky to live in such beautiful and historic surroundings. However, it’s definitely not Bridgerton. These days we all need to roll up our sleeves.”, whether fixing pipes, mowing the lawn or scrubbing the lavatories.
Sidmouth swimming pool Picture: Terry Ife
- Credit: Archant
With the school holidays reaching the mid-way point families could be looking for things to do in East Devon and there are a range of things on offer.
The bird hide at Seaton Wetlands. Picrture EDDC
- Credit: Archant
It’s the middle of the six-week school holiday and with staycations being the most favourable way to spend summer time this year, many local families will be wondering what to do, where to go, and – most importantly – what good offers are out there in East Devon this August.
So, we’ve taken a look.