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Shugborough: The Complete Working Historic Estate
Set on the banks of the beautiful River Sow, and on the northern wooded fringes of Cannock Chase, Shugborough Estate — the ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield — boasts 900 acres of historic parkland, remarkable working Georgian buildings and sublime gardens for you to explore.
Start your tour at the Walled Garden and meet the gardeners to find out how fruit and vegetables were grown for the whole estate.
Step into the Georgian Farmstead where you can watch the servants making butter and cheese in The Dairy and milling flour in The Water Mill.
Then take a short ride by the Land Train, or a stunning walk across the parkland, to reach the Working Servants’ Quarters where cooks and kitchen maids scurry about preparing food on the range, starching the whites in The Laundry and brewing ale in The Brewhouse (still brewing beer today).
The story continues in the eighteenth-century Mansion House, which contains such treasures as the magnificent State Dining Room, the lavish Red Drawing Room, and the sumptuous State Bedroom, once occupied by Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent.
For more information, visit www.shugborough.org.uk
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