Some of England\'s grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county.
Complementing them are smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them those of Sir Thomas Tresham: the eccentric and ingenious Tria.
The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor\'s stately Baroque Easton Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries.
Some of England\'s grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county