http://movingtone.com/taxonomy/term/229/0 en http://movingtone.com/directory/audley-end-house-and-gardens King Henry VIII gave Walden Abbey to Sir Thomas Audley, who transformed it into his mansion, Audley End. Despite ups and downs in its fortunes, Audley End remains one of England's grandest country homes with over 30 lavishly decorated rooms to enjoy and explore. The sumptuous interior is largely due to the third Baron Braybrooke who inherited Audley End in 1825, filling it with treasures including paintings by Masters such as Holbein and Canaletto. A rare set of English tapestries by Soho weaver Paul Saunders is now displayed after 30 years in store. Wander round the beautiful 19th-century parterre with its magnificent floral displays and imagine yourself back in Victorian times as you take a turn around the organic walled Kitchen Garden growing original fruit and vegetable varieties. charities clubs and societies community events Estate gigs - acoustic gigs - electric new music and improv venue workshops Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:28:56 +0000 Corinna Moving Tone 807 at http://movingtone.com http://movingtone.com/directory/childerley-hall Despite its small size Childerley contained in the Middle Ages two settlements, each with its own manor and church. They had probably been created around clearings in woodland made by young men (cildre) from Lolworth, the territory of which previously, like those of its neighbours to east and west, extended from the Huntingdon to the St. Neots road. The settlements, perhaps already distinct in 1086, had separate parishes and were distinguished as Great and Little Childerley from the early 13th century to c. 1500, when the two parishes were combined by the bishop. Great Childerley lay probably a little south-east of the Hall, bounded on the south-east by the stream. The platforms of its former tofts lie along hollow ways south of a street c. 240 m. running NNE. Little Childerley, whose earthworks were ploughed out in the late 1950s, may have stretched along a street 270 m. (300 yd.) long, running east and west, to the west of the Hall. A track, probably following old field ways, led in the early 19th century from the area between the settlements south to the turnpike and north towards the Broadway in Lolworth. It was crossed near the Hall by another between the southern part of Boxworth and Dry Drayton. <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> charities classical clubs and societies community events Estate venue workshops Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:03:19 +0000 740 at http://movingtone.com