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2024 and Fairburn Tower booking release

Availability for 2024 holidays at Landmarks across Britain, the Channel Islands and Italy will open to everyone online from 9am on 8 October. We wil also be releasing bookings for breaks at Fairburn Tower. Priority booking is available for Landmark Patrons and Friends - find the full details here.

2024 and Fairburn Tower

Culture Recovery Fund unlocks vital repairs

After the months of uncertainty following closures due to Covid, we were delighted to receive support thanks to the Culture Recovery Fund designed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Two major grants administered by Historic England enabled critical work at Landmarks across England.

The projects that benefitted

Lundy Marine Festival

14 July – 11 September 2022

This summer marks the 50^th anniversary of the UK’s first-ever Marine Protected Area at Lundy. In celebration of this milestone achievement, a two-month festival commences on 14 July and includes opportunities for everyone to get involved.

Lundy Marine Festival 2022

Seal in the seas in the Marine Protected Area around Lundy

Trees a Crowd on Lundy

New podcast and blog celebrate the island

We’re delighted to share a special Trees a Crowd podcast episode dedicated to Lundy. Regularly the top-rated nature podcast, Trees a Crowd celebrates the beauty and inspiration of our environment through informal conversations with artists, scientists and enthusiasts.

In this episode, recorded in spring 2022, host David Oakes meets island warden Rosie Ellis and assistant warden Stuart Cossey, together exploring the island, its endemic species and remarkable wildlife.

Listen to the podcast

A weekend at Langley Gatehouse by Nandini Das

‘Sturdy Jacobean brick and stone and timber of the gatehouse have persisted stubbornly’

Nandini Das, Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture, is fresh from a break at Langley Gatehouse. She has penned a blog in response, noting the ‘recent conversations across space and time in the carefully preserved visitors’ logbooks... Their thick, creamy pages are full of handwritten notes of people who have stayed here before us. Moments are captured in their lines just as they are in every groove and hollow of the building.’

Read Nandini’s beautiful piece

The impact of your holiday

Every break safeguards precious places

With each holiday booking, we can thatch and plaster. We can gild, grain and harl, reapply limewash, repoint and redecorate. Here we highlight a handful of recent maintenance works, each renewing and revitalising precious places.

Holidays with meaning

£1,600,000 Heritage Enterprise Grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund

We are delighted our ambitious project to transform Calverley Old Hall has been awarded £1,600,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, enabling the scheme to go ahead.

More about the award

Award-winning Landmarks:

Five trophies from RIBA

We are delighted to have received significant recognition for both Cobham Dairy and Winsford Cottage Hospital in the Royal Institute of British Architect’s Regional Awards 2022.

Find out more about the awards

Repairs and alterations at Sackville House

In this blog, Architect Nicola Westbury takes us through the extensive project over at Sackville House.

Read the blog

New Wave - a Heritage Open Days Initiative

‘New Wave’, created by Heritage Open Days, aims to encourage 18 to 25 years olds to engage with heritage sites. We are pleased to say that we've been selected to take part in this years scheme and will be creating an innovative offering to whet younger appetites. We can only do this with your help and so if you, or someone you know is within that age bracket and would like to volunteer time to help develop such open days please click below.

Volunteer with Landmark

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