A Tour of a Fairytale English Manor House in Wiltshire

Happy Spring friends, we were lucky enough to be given a private tour of Longleat House, one of England's most unique and as English stately homes go, probably one of the most unique and spectacular in terms of the art, history!
Longleat House in Wiltshire is about the most remarkable you could hope to find. At various points in its history it has enjoyed great prosperity or been rescued from near-oblivion; it has played host to queens and princes as well as hundreds of exotic wild animals; and its interior and exterior design and vast grounds have been shaped and re-shaped countless times by the collection of characters that have called it home over more than 450 years of history.
The house is still lived in today by the Marquess of Bath and his family and has been in the same family for over 400 years.
We also took my Mum and Dad (who you will meet in the video) for afternoon tea as part of the visit and day out, and we went to the same place we had been before which is LOVELY! We had the place almost entirely to ourselves and you'll get to experience the eccentric side of my family!
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[@VickiMcCormick-jf5pe]

As beautiful as these mansions are, I love the quaint little cottages. They are so much more homey and cozy I think.

[@HerCountryLiving]

These are an amazing part of history and so incredible to be able to visit for a day out I think but to live in I prefer my little cottage but wouldn’t mind a few weeks in a mansion 😂 🥰. X

[@HerCountryLiving]

I’ve got a beautiful old 600 year old cottage tour on the way ❤

[@pamelaschutz1248]

Very interesting thank you! I see from the boards that you have a new pack of our endangered African Wild Dogs there. Hope they thrive! Please God we can turn around the populations, by whatever means possible. This is stunning. Most of all, I love the ceilings, the wood panelling (imagine the thermo-protective benefits of a solid wood wall lining a very thick stone wall with a layer of air in between, these builders were geniuses! - it's ancient eco-consciousness to the core), those solid tables, and your father's naughtiness! SIX sugar-lumps! I agree with you, there were four in the first bunch and two dropped in later!!! All those flowers among the tea cakes were edible and most had medicinal properties, if organically produced. You can make a very refreshing citrusy-flavoured (high in Vit C) tea from hibiscus! Wow, I really loved this, Lucy. Your history is fascinating.

[@cindyglass5827]

A Beautiful Video & What a Sweet, Classy as well as 'Lovely' Manor ...
I really enjoyed seeing this, it truly ''made my night'' : ) after a very lonnng day : (
Thank-you for all of your ''attention to detail'' in your filming etc as well as your Wonderful Musical selection to accompany it : ) .... Very Much Appreciated !!

[@HerCountryLiving]

Aww thank you so much that’s such a lovely compliment and comment to read this morning! ❤

[@ivanarausova5167]

Beautiful ❤. Thank you very much for sharing. 😊

[@HerCountryLiving]

My pleasure 😊

[@user-cg3bk7fi3q]

Absolutely stunning ...... I think I could put up with living in this manor. 😊 💫

[@HerCountryLiving]

Hahaha me too! 💚🫢🥳

[@pamelaschutz1248]

I agree, except think about it, the upkeep! Looking at something like this really resets my mind about things people say about "women in the past", and "how lucky we are now". A woman in the past, who was the chatelaine/Lord's wife of this place, had to have the brains and knowledge of a modern CEO in the hospitality business: how to control scores of servants at various levels and what tasks they were up to daily and the budget; and the family food-producing parts of the grounds (I dare say the Lord concerned himself with the cattle, sheep, horses, woods, arable lands, payments etc); how to make and preserve linens/clothes/nappery; how to use herbs and plants to keep her family and her servants healthy and to heal the sick; how to gracefully entertain many and varied guests, which might sometimes have included royalty. I may be wrong, but I saw two pictures up there that look like Charles I and James II, or was it Charles II? A man in a glorious wig, anyway. Not to mention a working memory of the names of all the cottagers in their domains and possibly taking medicine to those sick as well. Not at all a wilting and pampered orchid!

[@theheartofzany1]

Such a beautiful place. Thank you for sharing it with us all.

[@aryafaaz9345]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@HerCountryLiving]

Thank you

[@crouton0077]

what a fun video

[@HerCountryLiving]

Thank you

[@lafarmhouse]

🩷🎀🌿🌷lovely video

[@HerCountryLiving]

Thank you 🤗

[@cablenelsonbabygrandpiano842]

Beautiful ❤️ 😍 🤩 👌 Thank you ❤️

[@HerCountryLiving]

My pleasure 😊

[@emmaroyce8558]

THANK YOU VERY NICE GOOD WITH BEST WISHES EMMA ROYCE

[@HerCountryLiving]

Thank you too

[@newfoundland3238]

Charming,loved the video!Such sweet people to watch..........hello from Connecticut USA