Althorp, Northamptonshire Tour

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Full day tour.

After leaving London you will head for Northamptonshire. A snapshot of rural England, overlooking glorious countryside, the village of Upper Stow boasts magnificent stone and thatched houses together with the Old Dairy Farm Centre, where you can see craftspeople at work, farm animals and antiques, as well as enjoying the restaurant facilities.

Althorp - One of the great countryn houses of England, the Spencers have lived and died here for nearly five centuries and twenty generations.

The house contains a variety of pictures, sculpture, furniture and ceramics, as well as boasting some fine interiors. The architect Henry Holland transformed the Elizabethan red brick house in the 1770s. The gardens have undergone much re-landscaping under Dan Pearson.

Visit the stables, now the setting for the exhibition celebrating the life of Diana Princess of Wales. Enter her family home and you will see the State Rooms including the Wootton Hall, the Library, the Saloon, the Marlborough and Sunderland Rooms, containing many wonderful pictures by Rubens, Van Dyck, REynolds and Gainsborough - artists familiar to everyone. The Garden Lobby with its porelain collection is also of great interest. OUtside stroll through the peaceful gardens towards the Round Oval, an ornamental lake, and see the island where Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest.

After a unique day out at Althorp you will return to London in the early evening (depending on traffic).