Places to Visit
 East MidlandsThe East Midlands is one of the regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It consists of the combined area of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and most of Lincolnshire.
The highest point in the region is Kinder Scout, in the Derbyshire Peak District at 2,088 ft (636 m). A looser definition of the East Midlands would include the City of Peterborough, Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
Financial funding decisions for the East Midlands (usually public construction schemes) are taken at the East Midlands Regional Assembly, based in Melton Mowbray. It is not an elected chamber, but a quango.
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78 Derngate NorthamptonNorthamptonshireA house re-designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for modelmanufacturer W.J. Bassett- Lowke. Carefully restored to its 1917 appearance in 2003, it is among Mackintosh’s last architectural works, and is the only Mackintosh house open in England.
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Arbor Low Stone Circle and Gib BakewellDerbyshireThe region’s most important prehistoric site, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set amid high moorland.
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Ashby de la Zouch Castle Ashby de la ZouchLeicestershireAshby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott’s classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe.
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Ashby Museum Ashby de la ZouchLeicestershireAshby-de-la-Zouch Museum is currently enjoying one of its most successful years ever. Having reopened at Easter with its splendid new extension and impressively refurbished galleries, it went on in July to win the prestigious award of Museum of the Year 2007.
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Belton House GranthamLincolnshireRestoration country house with magnificent interiors, gardens and park
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Bolingbroke Castle SpilsbyLincolnshireThe remains of a 13th-century hexagonal castle, birthplace in 1366 of the future King Henry IV, with adjacent earthworks. Besieged and taken by Cromwell’s Parliamentarians in 1643.
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Bolsover Castle ChesterfieldDerbyshire‘By an unlikely miracle,’ wrote the architectural historian Mark Girouard,‘the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of Elizabethan chivalry and romance.’ Dominating the countryside...
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Bolsover Cundy House ChesterfieldDerbyshireThis charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house once supplied water to Bolsover Castle. Recently restored, including its vaulted stone-slab roof.
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Burghley House StamfordLincolnshireBurghley was built and mostly designed by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, between 1555 and 1587, and is still lived in by his descendants.
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Calke Abbey DerbyDerbyshireVivid example of a great country house in decline, with extraordinary contents, historic park and restored garden
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