Landmark Spring 09

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There is still time to win the Landmark holiday of your dreams, while also supporting our work, by entering our 2009 Spring Raffle, online or by post. Help us to make this our most successful raffle ever.

The first prize is £3,000 towards the bookings of your choice. The closing date is 30 April 2009.

The Landmark Trust is the charity partner of a new photography competition, which aims to find the best images of Britain today. The DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Photography Competition, in partnership with photobox.co.uk and Waterstone's, invites all keen photographers to enter by 31 May 2009. For every photograph uploaded, DK Eyewitness Travel will donate 10p to the Landmark Trust.

The 232-page Handbook costs just £10 plus postage and packing. The Handbook cost is refundable against your first booking or you may wish to use the refund voucher to make a donation to support Landmark’s work in rescuing historic buildings.

Residents of USA and Canada can order a copy for US $28 from Landmark USA, 707 Kipling Road, Dummerston, Vermont 05301, USA. Tel: 802-254-6868.

The overall winner will not only have their photo published on the cover of the 2010 DK Great Britain Guide, but will also win £1,500 of Landmark gift vouchers, plus runner up prizes including photobox.co.uk vouchers and DK Eyewitness Travel Guides. To find out more visit the Landmark website.

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All the newspapers are telling us that people are deciding to holiday at home this year to enjoy the best that Britain can offer, and as I write this in mid-February our Booking Office is buzzing. Landmarkers, clearly, are voting with their feet. Landmarks, after all, combine a special experience with value – for example, over 47% of our buildings can be booked for a total amount which equates to less than £15 per person per night at the quieter times of the year, and the average figure across all prices throughout the year is still only £38.

The Shore Cottages, Caithness

Last year we launched a new supporters’ scheme, after a generous donor volunteered £6,000, or 1% of the total restoration cost, for Cowside in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ten others have since joined her as Guardians of Cowside. In recognition of their commitment, they have enjoyed direct dialogue with the Landmark team about the Cowside project, through pre-restoration visits, a picnic in Upper Wharefdale overlooking the building and a meeting at Shottesbrooke to discuss the restoration scheme.

So, forget the doom and gloom outside for a while, whether for a recharging weekend, special event, or family holiday. Replenish your spirits with the luxury of simplicity, handmade glass, brick and oak, the scent of beeswax, the fascination of history and the calming silence of ancient places. We hope, even more than usual, that a stay in a Landmark this year will help you to return refreshed to the fray for whatever this year may bring.

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Culloden Tower, North Yorkshire

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We are delighted that Astley Castle, the Shore Cottages, and Warder’s Tower now have Guardians too, people who feel passionately about each building’s future. Guardians have already contributed over £113,000 to our projects, which urgently need such demonstrations of commitment. We are currently drawing up the 2009 Guardians programme; to be part of it, please contact Anna Gordon on 01628 512127.

We have visited a number of their buildings and now have a shortlist of potential lead projects that would make good Landmarks. Meanwhile we have benefited from invaluable pro bono legal advice from the Paris office of the international law firm, Lovells, and will imminently sign the legal agreements necessary for the partnership between our two organisations.

Shottesbrooke Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 3SW Bookings 01628 825925 Office 01628 825920 Website www.landmarktrust.org.uk

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Henry VIII’s Quincentenary year

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Take a Tour of Britain

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Work begins at Astley Castle

Landmark France – an entente cordiale

The Landmark Trust

The website is being updated to provide online searches and reservations. We are aiming to introduce this service during 2009.

Spring 2009

Peter Pearce, Director

We continue to make steady progress in our discussions with le Conservatoire du littoral, our partner in a collaboration that we hope will establish Landmark in France.

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The best of British

Photography competition

The 23rd edition of the Landmark Trust Handbook, features 190 historic buildings available to stay in – follies, castles, towers, banqueting houses, cottages and other unusual buildings. Through the building entries and a collection of articles, the Handbook traces our architectural heritage from the 12th to the 20th century.

Issued twice yearly

Printed on an FSC certified mixed sources paper containing 50% recovered waste and 50% virgin fibre.

Charity registered in England & Wales 243312 and Scotland SC039205

Robin Hood’s Hut, Somerset

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Staying in Landmarks 40th Anniversary of Landmark on Lundy

Brick repairs at Queen Anne’s Summerhouse

40 years on, that goal remains our touchstone. Major works to the access road will be completed in 2009 thanks to the generosity of everyone who responded to our appeal. Landmark looks forward with confidence to tackling Lundy’s future challenges and giving many people the opportunity to discover this very special place.

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This 1714 folly was built of the finest quality gauged brickwork, rubbed to a gentle curve and finely pointed with white lime putty. Replacement bricks have been specially made by the Bulmer Brick & Tile Company from a fine, sandy clay fired at a low temperature, to match the colour and texture of the originals. The bricks are cut, and then rubbed down on site to create a precise edge, to enable the fine joints between the courses.

The Georgian House, Hampton Court Palace

At the end of March Queen Anne’s Summerhouse will welcome groups of children from five local schools for educational activities based on the building, both on site and in the classroom, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The children’s work will then be exhibited locally and on the Landmark Trust website. Queen Anne’s Summerhouse will open as a Landmark in 2009. Bookings will open in the summer.

Henry VIII’s Quincentenary Year Sir William Pelham of Laughton Place was a companion of Henry’s through the golden early years of the reign, accompanying his sovereign to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in France in 1520. The original inhabitants of Fish Court at Hampton Court Palace would have created fine dishes for both Henry and Cardinal Wolsey, from whom the King wrested Hampton Court in 1525. Wolsey survived as Henry’s Lord Chancellor until 1529, when he was arrested for high treason at Cawood Castle. His successor, Thomas Cromwell, proved more amenable in executing Henry’s religious policies, resulting in the Break from Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries (Woodspring Priory, Wilmington Priory, Warden Abbey, Bromfield Priory Gatehouse). The high drama of Henry’s reign continues to fascinate today, making 2009 the ideal year to experience living in a Tudor Landmark.

Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire Booking Office 01628 825925 Monday to Friday 9am - 6pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm

Cavendish Hall, Suffolk

Cavendish Hall: a generous bequest

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2009 is the 500th anniversary of the coronation of one of our most colourful monarchs.

Henry VIII was crowned, aged just 17, on 24 June 1509. A second son, he trained initially for the Church until his brother Arthur’s death in 1502 made him heir to the throne. Henry’s reign had an impact on our character as a nation that persists today and his career can be traced through Landmark’s portfolio of buildings.

The Old Light, Lundy

The Handbook costs £10 plus postage and packing: • £3 UK second class post • £5 UK first class post • £10 to Europe and rest of the world

Work is well underway on Queen Anne’s Summerhouse at Old Warden in Bedfordshire. The brickwork team, led by master bricklayer Emma Simpson, is painstakingly repairing the brickwork, helped by two trainees working under the Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme.

A lusty black brow’d girl with forehead broad and high That often had the sea gods bewitched with her eye.

This was how Michael Drayton personified Lundy in 1613.

More than 300 years later in September 1969, Landmark signed a lease on the island with the National Trust, who had acquired Lundy from the Harmans through the generosity of Sir Jack Hayward.

Landmark’s founder, Sir John Smith set as our goal that Lundy should ‘stand on its own two feet, with genuine jobs and livelihoods for everybody’ and be kept ‘a tranquil, solid and unaffected island with a genuine life of its own which visitors can share’.

To order a Handbook or make a donation to help us rescue buildings at risk, please complete the form below, telephone the Booking Office or go online.

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Thank you to everyone who donated to our appeal for Warder’s Tower, a Grade II* late-Regency castellated cottage built for the estate gamekeeper. With help too from the Country Houses Foundation and Staffordshire County Council, we have now raised £229,009 towards the restoration of this romantic wooded hideaway in Greenway Bank Country Park.

Unfortunately the fate of Warder’s Tower still hangs very much in the balance, and it desperately needs further help.

We are delighted to announce a new Landmark project in Suffolk, Cavendish Hall near Clare. It comes to us through the generosity of the executors of Mrs Pamela Matthews, who died in 2005. Cavendish Hall is an elegant, early Regency villa of great charm that Mrs Matthews had known and loved as a girl. When she married Thomas Matthews, managing editor of Time magazine, he bought it for her as a wedding present. This handsome, double-fronted house is surrounded by a small wooded park in rolling countryside; it is the sort of house Miss Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice might have lived in. Some refurbishment is needed (also generously provided for by Mrs Matthews’ estate) to offer a Landmark for 10-12 people. We expect to complete work in 2009.

You can now make donations online securely and quickly at www.landmarktrust.org.uk

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Five Landmarks for children

Great value in Scotland The Scottish Landmarks represent some of our most picturesque buildings in the best scenery. Close reading of the Price List reveals that they also offer excellent value for money. Prices per person per night start at just £7 for a mid-week break in January for Ascog House on the Isle of Bute (£32pppn for mid-week in August) or Tangy Mill on the Mull of Kintyre (£31pppn in August). You can book Auchinleck House for a country house weekend for just £12 per person a night in January (£43 in August) or romantic Rosslyn Castle just outside Edinburgh for the same good value.

Alton Station Perfect for train enthusiasts old and young, this former station is ideal for apprentice station masters. Alton Towers is just a short puff up the hill too.

Auchinleck House, Ayrshire

Holidays in Towers

Clavell Tower, Dorset

Forward bookings for the newly completed Clavell Tower are currently exceeding all our expectations. Left isolated in exposed positions without modern services, towers are just the kind of marginal buildings that need Landmark’s help for a new life and purpose. They also make fine and romantic spots to spend a holiday. Luckily, there are plenty of other towers available for Landmarkers seeking a holiday in a lofty lookout – Freston Tower, Luttrell’s Tower, Nicolle Tower and Peters Tower all look out over the sea, while Beckford’s Tower, Culloden Tower, Laughton Place and Prospect Tower offer views over more verdant scenes.

Coombe With eight Landmarks to choose from, there is no difficulty picking one to match your child’s age and interests.

Coombe is the perfect base for discovering nature, and the rockpools at nearby Duckpool are second to none.

Paxton’s Tower Lodge This humble cottage has an attic room ideal for children and there's the storybook tower to play in within sight.

Iron Bridge House At the historical heart of the industrial revolution, there is no better place to bring history alive.

Ironbridge is surrounded by child-friendly museums including Blists Hill Victorian Town.

Stogursey Castle Any budding knights or princesses can create their own fairytales within the moated site of this old castle. There’s even enough safe space outside for jousting.

Come and meet us The Landmark Trust will be exhibiting at VisitBritain’s Best of Britain & Ireland exhibition and the CLA Game Fair this year. The Best of Britain & Ireland show runs on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March in the ExCel Centre, London Docklands.

On both days, our Director, Peter Pearce will be giving a talk on Landmark and its work. The CLA Game Fair runs from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 July at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. We hope to see you there.

Availability List is updated daily at www.landmarktrust.org.uk

Paxton’s Tower Lodge, Carmarthenshire

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Plan your own Grand Tour A lot has been written in recent months about the sense in staying in Britain for our holidays this year – but of course many of us choose anyway to stay within these shores. We are in good company in this, since for centuries travels round the British Islands have inspired some of our finest writers and commentators. Writers like Simon Jenkins travelling the land in our own day have found, like John Leland in the 1540s, ‘a hole worlde of thinges very memorable’ waiting to be discovered on our own doorstep.

There are travel guides through time and topography to suit every period and area of interest, and many are found in our buildings. The fun comes not just in their depictions of the scene, but in comparing the descriptions of the scene and appreciation of it with our own. If your taste is for monastic sites and Tudor England, take John Leland’s Itineraries as your guide; for a glimpse of Jacobean whimsy, trace Michael Drayton’s personifications of rivers in his epic work, Poly-Olbion; for a rare female writer turn to Celia Fiennes’ travels through late Stuart England.

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In visiting Landmarks, there is constant delight in finding yourself led to a hitherto unknown corner of Britain: we feel uplifted and full of affection for our native soil.

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1 Saddell Castle ‘a perfect specimen of the accommodation furnished by one of our most ancient Scottish baronial residences’ (William Dobie, 1833)

Saddell Estate The Landmarks at Saddell Bay span the centuries before and after the Union. Here are six buildings of all sizes, styles and purposes from which to explore Scottish scenery at its finest.

2 Grasmere ‘this little unsuspected paradise..all is peace, rusticity…’

(Thomas Gray, 1769)

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Howthwaite Howthwaite’s bright and airy rooms overlook Dove Cottage, where Wordsworth welcomed his friends and where they composed much of their poetry, inspiring others to seek out the beauties of the Lake District.

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6 5 3 Ingestre ‘A very fine wilderness with many large walks of a great length’ (Celia Fiennes, 1698)

Ingestre Pavilion Capability Brown would redesign the park at Ingestre in 1756. This elegant pavilion, enhanced for Landmark by Philip Jebb, remains a fine spot in classic English parkland.

4 Wye Valley ‘a more pleasing retreat could not easily be found…a very inchanting piece of scenery’ (William Gilpin, 1770)

Clytha Castle As writers like Gilpin discovered the joys of our native scenery, landowners such as William Jones embellished it still further with imaginative buildings like this one.

5 Penzance ‘Pensands is rightly named being sands all about it…it looked soe snugg and warme’ (Celia Fiennes, 1698)

The Egyptian House A rare and noble survivor of a style in vogue after Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign of 1798, the house is now let as three apartments.

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‘It’ll never do to go to bed on such a lovely morning as this, let’s awa’ to Roslin Castle.’

(Robbie Burns, 1787 - Burns’ 250th anniversary this year)

‘a little fishing settlement of twenty boats…with a haven or bay a mile long. ( John Leland, c1540)

Rosslyn Castle and Collegehill House

The Pigsty

Rosslyn Castle sits dramatically on a rocky outcrop rising steeply from the River Esk, while Collegehill House is next to the lovely Rosslyn Chapel – all loved by travellers for centuries.

Inspired by his own Grand Tour, did Squire Barry hope to breed more intelligent pigs in this Ionic Temple? To muse upon, as you enjoy the view across to the sea at Robin Hood’s Bay.

2009 Open Days Landmark Open Days are open to all and admission is free. Please check our website for the latest information and opening times.

The Ruin, North Yorkshire

Anderton House, Devon Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September Auchinleck House, Ayrshire Sunday 6 September Clavell Tower, Dorset Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September

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9 Stretham ‘Few Fenland corners are as evocative as Stretham…’

(Simon Jenkins, 2003)

Stoker’s Cottage

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In easy reach of Cambridge and Ely, this former toll house later housed the stoker for Stretham Old Engine next door, which kept the fenland floods at bay. There are good waterways to discover on foot, beneath the wide fenland skies.

‘We admire Endsleigh exceedingly for its natural beauties…’ ( J C Loudon, 1842)

Pond Cottage and Swiss Cottage (pictured above) The streams and cascades of the gardens at Endsleigh remain one of the best examples of English Picturesque. Rustic Pond Cottage lies at their heart, while Swiss Cottage surveys a view not bettered in Europe.

‘the Cathedral…is esteemed the finest in England in all respects.’

(Celia Fiennes, c1690)

The Wardrobe At The Wardrobe you will feel a privileged part of life at the heart of a cathedral Close, with your own private view, by day and night, of one of the finest exemplars anywhere of the medieval mason’s art.

Freston Tower, Suffolk Tuesday 12 to Friday 15 May* Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September* The Grange, Kent Friday 5 to Monday 8 June* Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September* Morpeth Castle, Northumberland Sunday 13 September Old Campden House, Gloucestershire Tuesday 28 April to Friday 1 May* Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September*

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Dolbelydr, Denbighshire Tuesday 28 April to Friday 1 May* Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September*

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Peake’s House As Colchester was a centre for the cloth trade, these fine Tudor cottages, now a single house, probably belonged to weavers, the long windows designed to give light to the looms.

Peake's House, Essex Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September The Ruin, North Yorkshire Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September Wilmington Priory, East Sussex Friday 27 to Monday 30 March* Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September* *On the final Open Day the Landmark will only be open in the morning from 10am to 1pm.

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Projects & Restoration A milestone for Landmark Patrons Landmark Patrons have now contributed almost £1.2 million to our work. This year, over 100 of you have given £1,000 (£83 a month by direct debit), crucial help with funding shortfalls, emergency repairs and unlocking matching funds. Your support has never been more vital and we are enormously grateful.

Patrons enjoy greater involvement in Landmark’s work through prerestoration inspections and hard hat visits, as well as early booking privileges. To find out more, please visit the website or contact Linda Millard on 01628 825920.

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Astley Castle, Warwickshire

Work begins at Astley Castle In October, thanks to a generous emergency works grant from English Heritage and a contribution from the Arbury Estate, we began Phase I of our project to bring life back to Astley Castle. Much of this ancient structure is now beyond repair, but the Landmark scheme will give what can be saved new purpose by incorporating the best of modern design to stabilise remaining fabric and create Landmark accommodation within it.

We have just heard that a very generous legacy has been left towards the restoration of Cowside from the estate of Mrs Sylvia Chapman. We are delighted to announce that this has enabled us to complete the fundraising for Cowside a year ahead of schedule and that we can start the restoration work earlier than planned. We are most grateful for such a generous gift.

Phase I involves the clearance of fallen rubble, careful taking down of areas that cannot be saved and consolidation of what is salvageable. For the first time in years, the castle can be carefully analysed. Former doors, windows and hearths have been revealed. We can save more of the central spine wall than expected and will be able to salvage some of the vice tower as a stairwell. Such discoveries require the architectural scheme to evolve gently to take account of them, and our team of surveyors, structural engineer, quantity surveyor, archaeologist and project manager have been working with the architects to achieve solutions that mesh best practice in conservation with the vision for the new build.

Our Cowside appeal prompted an unprecedented response from our supporters and has led to the creation of a new supporters’ programme, the Guardians. It is with thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Cowside appeal that the building’s future is now secure.

In February, we submitted our Stage II application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for £1.467 million, towards a total project cost of £2.175 million. We are very grateful for generous donations from major private donors and everyone who has given to our appeal. We still have £101,000 left to raise (only 5%) for this exciting project to be fully funded so that work can continue if, as we hope, we get a positive decision from the HLF in June.

Astley Castle, Warwickshire

To make a donation to support our work and ensure historic buildings have a secure future call 01628 825920

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Staying in Landmarks 40th Anniversary of Landmark on Lundy

Brick repairs at Queen Anne’s Summerhouse

40 years on, that goal remains our touchstone. Major works to the access road will be completed in 2009 thanks to the generosity of everyone who responded to our appeal. Landmark looks forward with confidence to tackling Lundy’s future challenges and giving many people the opportunity to discover this very special place.

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This 1714 folly was built of the finest quality gauged brickwork, rubbed to a gentle curve and finely pointed with white lime putty. Replacement bricks have been specially made by the Bulmer Brick & Tile Company from a fine, sandy clay fired at a low temperature, to match the colour and texture of the originals. The bricks are cut, and then rubbed down on site to create a precise edge, to enable the fine joints between the courses.

The Georgian House, Hampton Court Palace

At the end of March Queen Anne’s Summerhouse will welcome groups of children from five local schools for educational activities based on the building, both on site and in the classroom, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The children’s work will then be exhibited locally and on the Landmark Trust website. Queen Anne’s Summerhouse will open as a Landmark in 2009. Bookings will open in the summer.

Henry VIII’s Quincentenary Year Sir William Pelham of Laughton Place was a companion of Henry’s through the golden early years of the reign, accompanying his sovereign to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in France in 1520. The original inhabitants of Fish Court at Hampton Court Palace would have created fine dishes for both Henry and Cardinal Wolsey, from whom the King wrested Hampton Court in 1525. Wolsey survived as Henry’s Lord Chancellor until 1529, when he was arrested for high treason at Cawood Castle. His successor, Thomas Cromwell, proved more amenable in executing Henry’s religious policies, resulting in the Break from Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries (Woodspring Priory, Wilmington Priory, Warden Abbey, Bromfield Priory Gatehouse). The high drama of Henry’s reign continues to fascinate today, making 2009 the ideal year to experience living in a Tudor Landmark.

Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire Booking Office 01628 825925 Monday to Friday 9am - 6pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm

Cavendish Hall, Suffolk

Cavendish Hall: a generous bequest

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Emma Simpson laying out brickwork at Queen Anne’s Summerhouse, Bedfordshire

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Warder’s Tower appeal under way

2009 is the 500th anniversary of the coronation of one of our most colourful monarchs.

Henry VIII was crowned, aged just 17, on 24 June 1509. A second son, he trained initially for the Church until his brother Arthur’s death in 1502 made him heir to the throne. Henry’s reign had an impact on our character as a nation that persists today and his career can be traced through Landmark’s portfolio of buildings.

The Old Light, Lundy

The Handbook costs £10 plus postage and packing: • £3 UK second class post • £5 UK first class post • £10 to Europe and rest of the world

Work is well underway on Queen Anne’s Summerhouse at Old Warden in Bedfordshire. The brickwork team, led by master bricklayer Emma Simpson, is painstakingly repairing the brickwork, helped by two trainees working under the Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme.

A lusty black brow’d girl with forehead broad and high That often had the sea gods bewitched with her eye.

This was how Michael Drayton personified Lundy in 1613.

More than 300 years later in September 1969, Landmark signed a lease on the island with the National Trust, who had acquired Lundy from the Harmans through the generosity of Sir Jack Hayward.

Landmark’s founder, Sir John Smith set as our goal that Lundy should ‘stand on its own two feet, with genuine jobs and livelihoods for everybody’ and be kept ‘a tranquil, solid and unaffected island with a genuine life of its own which visitors can share’.

To order a Handbook or make a donation to help us rescue buildings at risk, please complete the form below, telephone the Booking Office or go online.

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Thank you to everyone who donated to our appeal for Warder’s Tower, a Grade II* late-Regency castellated cottage built for the estate gamekeeper. With help too from the Country Houses Foundation and Staffordshire County Council, we have now raised £229,009 towards the restoration of this romantic wooded hideaway in Greenway Bank Country Park.

Unfortunately the fate of Warder’s Tower still hangs very much in the balance, and it desperately needs further help.

We are delighted to announce a new Landmark project in Suffolk, Cavendish Hall near Clare. It comes to us through the generosity of the executors of Mrs Pamela Matthews, who died in 2005. Cavendish Hall is an elegant, early Regency villa of great charm that Mrs Matthews had known and loved as a girl. When she married Thomas Matthews, managing editor of Time magazine, he bought it for her as a wedding present. This handsome, double-fronted house is surrounded by a small wooded park in rolling countryside; it is the sort of house Miss Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice might have lived in. Some refurbishment is needed (also generously provided for by Mrs Matthews’ estate) to offer a Landmark for 10-12 people. We expect to complete work in 2009.

You can now make donations online securely and quickly at www.landmarktrust.org.uk

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Handbook The Landmark Spring Raffle

Guardians update

The Landmark Trust newsletter

There is still time to win the Landmark holiday of your dreams, while also supporting our work, by entering our 2009 Spring Raffle, online or by post. Help us to make this our most successful raffle ever.

The first prize is £3,000 towards the bookings of your choice. The closing date is 30 April 2009.

The Landmark Trust is the charity partner of a new photography competition, which aims to find the best images of Britain today. The DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Photography Competition, in partnership with photobox.co.uk and Waterstone's, invites all keen photographers to enter by 31 May 2009. For every photograph uploaded, DK Eyewitness Travel will donate 10p to the Landmark Trust.

The 232-page Handbook costs just £10 plus postage and packing. The Handbook cost is refundable against your first booking or you may wish to use the refund voucher to make a donation to support Landmark’s work in rescuing historic buildings.

Residents of USA and Canada can order a copy for US $28 from Landmark USA, 707 Kipling Road, Dummerston, Vermont 05301, USA. Tel: 802-254-6868.

The overall winner will not only have their photo published on the cover of the 2010 DK Great Britain Guide, but will also win £1,500 of Landmark gift vouchers, plus runner up prizes including photobox.co.uk vouchers and DK Eyewitness Travel Guides. To find out more visit the Landmark website.

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All the newspapers are telling us that people are deciding to holiday at home this year to enjoy the best that Britain can offer, and as I write this in mid-February our Booking Office is buzzing. Landmarkers, clearly, are voting with their feet. Landmarks, after all, combine a special experience with value – for example, over 47% of our buildings can be booked for a total amount which equates to less than £15 per person per night at the quieter times of the year, and the average figure across all prices throughout the year is still only £38.

The Shore Cottages, Caithness

Last year we launched a new supporters’ scheme, after a generous donor volunteered £6,000, or 1% of the total restoration cost, for Cowside in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ten others have since joined her as Guardians of Cowside. In recognition of their commitment, they have enjoyed direct dialogue with the Landmark team about the Cowside project, through pre-restoration visits, a picnic in Upper Wharefdale overlooking the building and a meeting at Shottesbrooke to discuss the restoration scheme.

So, forget the doom and gloom outside for a while, whether for a recharging weekend, special event, or family holiday. Replenish your spirits with the luxury of simplicity, handmade glass, brick and oak, the scent of beeswax, the fascination of history and the calming silence of ancient places. We hope, even more than usual, that a stay in a Landmark this year will help you to return refreshed to the fray for whatever this year may bring.

Office on 01628 825925

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complete the form overleaf and return it to The Landmark Trust, Shottesbrooke, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 3SW

Culloden Tower, North Yorkshire

Online reservations

We are delighted that Astley Castle, the Shore Cottages, and Warder’s Tower now have Guardians too, people who feel passionately about each building’s future. Guardians have already contributed over £113,000 to our projects, which urgently need such demonstrations of commitment. We are currently drawing up the 2009 Guardians programme; to be part of it, please contact Anna Gordon on 01628 512127.

We have visited a number of their buildings and now have a shortlist of potential lead projects that would make good Landmarks. Meanwhile we have benefited from invaluable pro bono legal advice from the Paris office of the international law firm, Lovells, and will imminently sign the legal agreements necessary for the partnership between our two organisations.

Shottesbrooke Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 3SW Bookings 01628 825925 Office 01628 825920 Website www.landmarktrust.org.uk

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Landmark France – an entente cordiale

The Landmark Trust

The website is being updated to provide online searches and reservations. We are aiming to introduce this service during 2009.

Spring 2009

Peter Pearce, Director

We continue to make steady progress in our discussions with le Conservatoire du littoral, our partner in a collaboration that we hope will establish Landmark in France.

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The 23rd edition of the Landmark Trust Handbook, features 190 historic buildings available to stay in – follies, castles, towers, banqueting houses, cottages and other unusual buildings. Through the building entries and a collection of articles, the Handbook traces our architectural heritage from the 12th to the 20th century.

Issued twice yearly

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Charity registered in England & Wales 243312 and Scotland SC039205

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