Illustrated with more than 200 splendid images including beautiful photographs, fine-art paintings, reconstructions and maps. Covers an amazingly wide range of Castles and Stately Houses from the early Tudor palaces and the later 'Prodigy Houses' of the Elizabethan era, to the Jacobean country houses and the homes of the Restoration style Detailed castle-by-castle guide interesting and thorough information along with beautiful colour photographs