Back two weeks ago I was treated to a one night stay in a hotel near Arundel in West Sussex and while I was there with my daughter, son-in-law and my grandson we spent a very happy day at a wonderful National trust property called Petworth house and Park. This beautiful place is one of the great heritages that have inspired so many artists, writers, royalty and famous landscape gardeners to turn an old house into something that we, as a nation should be proud to have in our country. It's one of the most lovely and accessible properties I have visited to date and one that still lingers in my mind as a place I want to revisit again and again. I'll be honored to share it ...  Read the complete review

Petworth House and Park is a great example of why the National Trust is so fantastic as it has preserved an amazing house and garden for us all to enjoy. The house is a huge 17th century mansion chocked full of art work that wouldn't look out of place in the National Gallery (Turner, Van Dyck etc etc). The public rooms are very grand, and I must admit, I find it quite difficult to imagine people living there, although they are still interesting to look around. My favourite rooms are the servants rooms and the kitchens - in these rooms somehow there is much more feeling of how life actually was lived than in the formal rooms. What makes ...  Read the complete review

Firstly a thank you to Dooyoo for actually topping this category with a lovely view of Petworth House!...... ......Now struck me as a timely point at which to write this particular review, as this year Petworth House - along with many other E.H. and N.T. properties - opens its doors for a new season on 1st April. Petworth House is one of those places, no further than a thirty minute drive from where I have lived all my life, that had never been visited. On Sunday, 23rd October, my wife and I finally put that to rights. Petworth "House" is in fact a rather narrow definition of this particular attraction. Yes, the building itself ...  Read the complete review