Historic Buildings & Monuments

Time really does stand still at Brodsworth Hall, one of the most unusual visitor attractions in South Yorkshire.

Inside this beautiful Victorian country house almost everything has been left exactly as it was when it was still a family home. Possessions that took more than 130 years to gather together, from the grandest piece of furniture to family mementoes and humble domestic items, are still in their original places.

Visit 'Duty Calls' the exhibition about Brodsworth Hall in times of war.

This ancient stone bridge - originally 'gallows bridge'- once carried packhorses bringing fleeces to Dunster market.

The medieval wool trade

In the Middle Ages wool was England’s chief export, and the source of much of the country’s wealth. axes on wool exports paid for Edward I’s conquest of Wales and his near conquest of Scotland.

Corsham Court is one of England's finest stately homes and is based upon an Elizabethan Manor dating from 1582. The interiors are laid out as a suite of magnificent Georgian Staterooms, the work of leading 18th and 19th Century architects. Their brief was to properly display the famous Methuen/Sanford art collection featuring Old Masters by Van Dyck, Carlo Dolci and Lippi. Important works still hang as intended alongside Adams Brothers' pier glasses in the unique triple cube picture gallery with ornate ceiling by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.

The Valiant Soldier is an amazing place. It is a pub that closed in the 1960's creating a time warp within its walls. It had been a village inn for more than two centuries. but when it closed furniture, pub artefacts and domestic items were simply left where they stood as the last customer walked out. All the artefacts and living accommodation date back to the 1940's and 1950's, when nothing was ever thrown away!

Visiting the pub is unique. You will experience a living social history as you tour the building.

The Bar