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Bedford Creative Arts promotes participation for all in the visual arts through access to an extensive programme of community and education projects using film, photography and... more

The shell of a 17th century mansion with magnificent views, Houghton House was built as a hunting lodge for Mary, Dowager Countess of Pembroke. A mixture of Jacobean and Classical... more

A unique flying collection showcasing the first one hundred years of flight. Shuttleworth also boasts the UK's largest Bird of Prey Centre with over 300 birds.

Among the largest sepulchral chapels attached to any English church, this cruciform mausoleum houses a remarkable sequence of 17 sculpted and effigied monuments, spanning nearly... more

A modest but complete and attractive 14th-century chantry chapel, perhaps originally a hospital.

This is one of the most magnificent gardens in England, yet one of the least well known. Unlike 'Capability' Brown's natural landscape styling, favoured during the late 18th... more

The Safari Reserves, with their wide open spaces, provide the perfect habitat for the park's animals to roam freely and behave naturally. They also offer you the opportunity to... more

Take trip down Memory Lane, seeing bygone vehicles from the beginning of the century up to modern day classics, most of which originate from the largest private collection in the... more