church tower near croft castle. the royal oak foundation makes it easy for americans to visit the castles, gardens and areas of natural beauty protected by the national trust.butterfly on a plant. the national trust preserves wildlife.a statue in the garden at hidcote. the royal oak foundation assists the national trust in its efforts to preserve and maintain historical gardensa statue in the garden at hidcote. the royal oak foundation assists the national trust in its efforts to preserve and maintain historical gardens
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  • a la ronde aberconwy house
  • aberdeunant
  • aberulais falls
  • acorn bank garden and watermill
  • aira force
  • alderley edge
  • alfriston clergy house
  • allen banks
  • alloa tower
  • anglesey abbey & gardens
  • antony house
  • ardress house
  • the argory
  • arlington court
  • ascott
  • ashdown house
  • ashleworth tithe barn
  • ashridge estate
  • attingham park
  • avebury manor & garden
  • avebury museum
  • baddesley clinton
  • barrington court
  • basildon park bateman's
  • bath assembly rooms
  • beatrix potter gallery
  • bedruthan steps
  • belton house
  • bembridge windmill
  • beningbrough hall and gardens
  • benthall hall
  • berrington hall
  • biddulph grange garden
  • birmingham back to backs
  • blaise hamlet
  • blakeney national nature reserve
  • blakey topping
  • blewcoat school
  • blickling hall, gardens and park
  • boarstall duck decoy
  • boarstall tower
  • bodiam castle
  • bodnant garden borrowdale
  • boscastle
  • bourne mill
  • box hill
  • bradenham village
  • bradley manor
  • braithwaite hall
  • brancaster
  • branscombe
  • branscombe – the old
  • bakery, manor mill and forge
  • brean down
  • bredon barn
  • bridestones bridge house
  • brighstone shop and museum
  • brimham rocks
  • brockhampton estate & lower brockhampton
  • brownsea island
  • buckingham chantry chapel
  • buckland abbey
  • budlake old post office room
  • buscot estate
  • buscot old parsonage
  • buscot park buttermere
  • calke abbey
  • canons ashby house
  • carding mill valley
  • carlyle's house carnewas
  • carrick-a-rede
  • cartmel priory gatehouse
  • castle coole
  • castle drogo
  • castle ward
  • charlecote park
  • chartwell
  • chastleton house
  • chedworth roman villa
  • cherryburn (thomas bewick's birthplace)
  • chilterns gateway
  • centre chirk castle
  • the church house
  • cilgerran castle
  • claife
  • clandon park
  • claremont landscape garden
  • claydon house
  • clevedon court
  • cliveden
  • clouds hill
  • clumber park
  • clyston mill
  • coggeshall grange barn
  • colby woodland garden
  • coleridge cottage
  • coleshill estate
  • coleton fishacre
  • compton castle
  • coniston
  • conwy suspension bridge
  • corfe castle
  • cornish mines & engines
  • cotehele
  • cotehele mill
  • coughton court
  • the courts garden
  • cragside
  • croft castle & parkland
  • crom
  • cronkhill
  • croome court and park
  • crosscliff
  • the crown bar
  • cwmmau farmhouse
  • dalton castle
  • dapdune wharf
  • derrymore house
  • derwent island house
  • the devil's punch bowl café
  • dinefwr park and castle
  • dinton park
  • dolcouthi gold mines
  • dorneywood garden
  • downhill demesne
  • duddon
  • dudmaston estate
  • dunham massey
  • dunstable downs
  • dunstanburgh castle
  • dunster castle
  • dunster working watermill
  • dunwich heath: coastal centre and beach
  • dyrham park
  • east riddlesden hall
  • eastbury manor house
  • elizabethan house museum
  • emmetts garden
  • ennerdale erddig
  • eskedale
  • farnborough hall
  • farne islands
  • felbrigg hall, garden & park
  • fell foot park
  • fenton house
  • finch foundry
  • flatford: bridge cottage
  • the fleece inn
  • florence court
  • force crag mine
  • formby
  • 20 forthlin road
  • fountains abbey & studley royal
  • fox talbot museum
  • fyne court
  • gawthorpe hall
  • george inn
  • george stephenson's birthplace
  • giant's causeway
  • georgian house gibside
  • glastonbury tor
  • glendurgan garden
  • goddards garden
  • godolphin
  • godrevy
  • gondola
  • grantham house
  • grasmere
  • gray's printing press
  • great chalfield manor and garden
  • great coxwell barn
  • great langdale
  • greenway
  • the greyfriars
  • greys court
  • gunby hall
  • gunwalloe
  • hadrian's wall
  • hailes abbey
  • ham house and garden
  • hanbury hall
  • hardcastle crags
  • mr. hardman's photographic studio
  • hardwick hall
  • hardy monument
  • hardy's cottage
  • hare hill
  • hatchlands park
  • hatfield forest
  • hawford dovecote
  • hawkshead
  • heelis
  • hezlett house
  • hidcote manor garden
  • high peak estate
  • hill top
  • hindhead commons
  • hinton ampner
  • holnicote estate
  • holy jesus hospital
  • the homewood
  • horsey windpump
  • horton court
  • houghton mill
  • housesteads roman fort
  • hughenden manor
  • ickworth house, park & gardens
  • ightham mote
  • ilam park
  • kedleston hall
  • killerton
  • king john's hunting lodge
  • king's head
  • kingston lacy
  • kinver edge and the rock houses
  • kinwarton dovecote
  • knightshayes court
  • knole
  • the kymin
  • kynance cove
  • lacock abbey & village
  • lamb house
  • lanhydrock
  • lavenham: the guildhall
  • of corpus christi
  • lawrence house
  • leith hall
  • letocetum roman baths
  • levant mine and beam engine
  • lindisfarne castle
  • lindsey house
  • little clarendon
  • little fleece bookshop
  • little moreton hall
  • the lizard
  • llanerchaeron
  • lode mill
  • lodge park
  • loe pool
  • long crendon courthouse
  • longshaw estate
  • loughwood meeting house
  • lower brockhampton
  • lundy island
  • lydford gorge
  • lyme park
  • lytes cary manor
  • lyveden new bield
  • maister house
  • malham tarn estate
  • marker's cottage
  • marsden moor estate
  • max gate
  • melford hall
  • mendips
  • middle littleton tithe barn
  • mompesson house
  • monk's house
  • monksthorpe chapel
  • montacute house
  • morden hall park
  • morville hall
  • moseley old hall
  • mottisfont abbey garden, house & estate
  • mottistone manor garden
  • moulton hall
  • mount grace priory
  • mount stewart house, garden & temple of the winds
  • museum of childhood, sudbury hall
  • mussenden temple
  • national trust carriage museum
  • national trust museum of childhood
  • the needles old battery and new battery
  • nether alderley mill
  • newark park
  • newton house
  • newtown old town hall
  • nostell priory and parkland
  • nunnington hall
  • nymans
  • oakhurst cottage
  • the old manor
  • the old mill
  • old soar manor
  • orford ness national nature reserve
  • ormesby hall
  • osterley park and house
  • overbeck's
  • owletts
  • oxburgh hall, garden and estate
  • packwood house
  • patterson's spade mill
  • paycocke's
  • peckover house and garden
  • penrhyn castle
  • penrose estate
  • petworth house and park
  • philipps house
  • pitstone windmill
  • plas newydd
  • plas-yn-rhiw
  • polesden lacey
  • portstewart strand
  • powis castle & garden
  • priest's house, easton
  • priest's house, muchelney
  • prior park landscape garden
  • priory cottages
  • quarry bank mill
  • quebec house
  • rainham hall
  • ramsey abbey gatehouse
  • rayleigh mount
  • red house
  • rhossili visitor centre and shop
  • rievaulx terrace & temples
  • river wey and godalming navigations
  • rock houses
  • "roman" bath
  • roseberry topping
  • rosedene
  • rowallane garden
  • rufford old hall
  • runnymede
  • st. anthony head
  • st. david's visitor centre and shop
  • st. george's guildhall
  • st. john's jerusalem
  • st. michael's mount saltram house
  • sandham memorial chapel
  • science discovery centre (woolsthorpe manor)
  • scotney castle
  • segontium
  • shalford mill
  • shaw's corner
  • sheffield park garden
  • sherborne estate
  • sheringham park
  • shropshire hills
  • shugborough estate
  • shute barton
  • sissinghurst castle garden
  • sizergh castle and garden
  • skenfrith castle
  • smallhythe place
  • snowshill manor and garden
  • souter lighthouse
  • south foreland lighthouse
  • south peak
  • speke hall, garden & estate
  • springhill
  • sprivers garden
  • stackpole estate
  • stagshaw garden
  • stainsby mill, hardwick estate
  • standen
  • staunton harold church
  • staward gorge
  • stembridge tower mill
  • stoke-sub-hamdon priory
  • stoneacre
  • stonehenge landscape
  • stourhead
  • stowe landscape gardens
  • mr. straw's house
  • studland beach and nature reserve
  • studley royal water gardens
  • styal estate
  • sudbury hall & the nt
  • museum of childhood
  • sunnycroft
  • sutton hoo
  • sutton house
  • tarn hows
  • tattershall castle
  • tatton park
  • temple of the winds
  • theatre royal, bury st. edmunds
  • thorington hall
  • tintagel old post office
  • tintinhull garden
  • town walls tower
  • townend
  • treasurer's house, martock
  • treasurer's house, york
  • trelissick garden
  • trengwainton garden
  • trerice
  • troutbeck
  • tudor merchant's house
  • ty mawr wybrnant
  • ty'n-y-coed uchaf
  • tyntesfield
  • ullswater
  • ulverscroft nature reserve
  • uppark house and garden
  • upper wharfdale
  • upton house and gardens
  • the vyne
  • waddesdon manor
  • wakehurst place
  • wallington
  • wasdale
  • washington old hall
  • watersmeet
  • the weir
  • wellbrook beetling mill
  • west exmoor coast
  • west green house garden
  • west pennard court barn
  • west wycombe park
  • west wycombe village
  • westbury college gatehouse
  • westbury court garden
  • westwood manor
  • whipsnade estate
  • the white cliffs of dover
  • white cottage
  • white mill
  • the whitley centre
  • wichenford dovecote
  • wicken fen national nature reserve
  • wightwick manor and gardens
  • wilderhope manor
  • willington dovecote and stables
  • 2 willow road
  • wimpole hall
  • wmpole home farm
  • winchester city mill
  • windermere
  • winkworth arboretum
  • winster market house
  • woodchester park
  • woolsthorpe manor
  • wordsworth house and garden
  • the workhouse (southwell)

entire list (pdf)

slideshow of properties

  • knightshayes court in devon
  • dining room at knightshayes court, devon
  • the kitchen at lanhydrock, cornwall
  • a "chair of state"in the spangle bedroom at knole in kent
  • red house in bexleyheath, london
  • the giant's causeway, county antim, northern ireland
  • souter lighthouse at marsden, south tyneside
  • a picnic on the lawn at polesden lacey, surrey
  • staircase figure at ightham mote, kent
  • stowe landscape gardens in buckinghamshire
  • blackcurrants in the kitchen garden at knightshayes court, devon
  • a portrait entitled old woman with distaff by murillo at stourhead, in wiltshire
  • costumed interpretor with visitor at hardwick hall in derbyshire
  • raindrops on water lilies at bodnant garden in wales
  • stonework over a door at bodnant garden, wales
  • pin mill at bodnant garden in wales
  • a picnic on the lawn at nymans in west sussex
  • a painting at fenton house in london
  • houses in the village at lacock
  • a modern desk in the study at the homewood in surrey
  • visitors at stourhead in wiltshire
  • the back garden at sir paul mccartney's childhood home in liverpool
  • visitors at buckland abbey in devon
  • lindisfarne castle in northumberland
  • a family at prior park landscape garden, bath
  • visitors at wightwick manor in the west midlands
  • hardwick hall in derbyshire
  • garden statue at hardwick hall in derbyshire
  • boating on windermere in the cumbria lake district
  • visitors at fountains abbey in north yorkshire.
  • woman walking through studley royal water garden in north yorkshire
  • a fireplace at tyntesfield, north somerset

 

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  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
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  • free entry to properties of the national trust of england, wales & northern ireland and the national trust for scotland
  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
  • each membership card admits two persons to national trust sites
  • national trust magazine and royal oak newsletter (three issues per year)
  • national trust of england, wales & northern ireland annual handbook and parking pass
  • reduced-price admission to royal oak's drue heinz lectures
  • access to supporting-level members-only day tours & programs in the u.s.
  • priority registration for the drue heinz lectures in the u.s.

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  • free entry to properties of the national trust of england, wales & northern ireland and the national trust for scotland
  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
  • each membership card admits two persons to national trust sites
  • national trust magazine and royal oak newsletter (three issues per year)
  • national trust of england, wales & northern ireland annual handbook and parking pass
  • reduced-price admission to royal oak's drue heinz lectures
  • access to supporting-level members-only day tours & programs in the u.s.
  • priority registration for the drue heinz lectures in the u.s.

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  • free entry to properties of the national trust of england, wales & northern ireland and the national trust for scotland
  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
  • each membership card admits two persons to national trust sites
  • national trust magazine and royal oak newsletter (three issues per year)
  • national trust of england, wales & northern ireland annual handbook and parking pass
  • reduced-price admission to royal oak's drue heinz lectures
  • access to supporting-level members-only day tours & programs in the u.s.
  • priority registration for the drue heinz lectures in the u.s.

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benefactor2 admit two cards   $1,000  joinrenewalgift

  • $75 is non-tax-deductible
  • free entry to properties of the national trust of england, wales & northern ireland and the national trust for scotland
  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
  • each membership card admits two persons to national trust sites
  • national trust magazine and royal oak newsletter (three issues per year)
  • national trust of england, wales & northern ireland annual handbook and parking pass
  • reduced-price admission to royal oak's drue heinz lectures
  • access to supporting-level members-only day tours & programs in the u.s.
  • priority registration for the drue heinz lectures in the u.s.

plus:

  • complimentary admission for two to one drue heinz lecture each season and advanced registration for all lectures (limited availability)
  • access to the national trust's special visits, tours and lectures calendar of events
  • invitation to the annual heritage circle uk study day
  • annual gift book and a complimentary copy of apollo magazine's "national trust historic houses & collections annual"
  • special access to the national trust's arts, buildings and collections bulletin
  • special recognition in the foundation's annual report

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  • $75 is non-tax-deductible
  • free entry to properties of the national trust of england, wales & northern ireland and the national trust for scotland
  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
  • each membership card admits two persons to national trust sites
  • national trust magazine and royal oak newsletter (three issues per year)
  • national trust of england, wales & northern ireland annual handbook and parking pass
  • reduced-price admission to royal oak's drue heinz lectures
  • access to supporting-level members-only day tours & programs in the u.s.
  • priority registration for the drue heinz lectures in the u.s.

plus:

  • complimentary admission for two to two drue heinz lectures each season and advanced registration for all lectures (limited availability)
  • access to the national trust's special visits, tours and lectures calendar of events
  • invitation to the annual heritage circle uk study day
  • annual gift book and a complimentary copy of apollo magazine's "national trust historic houses & collections annual"
  • special access to the national trust's arts, buildings and collections bulletin
  • special recognition in the foundation's annual report
  • complimentary student/young professional gift membership.

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guardian2 admit two cards   $5,000  joinrenewalgift

  • $450 is non-tax-deductible
  • free entry to properties of the national trust of england, wales & northern ireland and the national trust for scotland
  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
  • each membership card admits two persons to national trust sites
  • national trust magazine and royal oak newsletter (three issues per year)
  • national trust of england, wales & northern ireland annual handbook and parking pass
  • reduced-price admission to royal oak's drue heinz lectures
  • access to supporting-level members-only day tours & programs in the u.s.
  • priority registration for the drue heinz lectures in the u.s.

plus:

  • complimentary admission for two to two drue heinz lectures each season, advanced registration, and invitation for dinner with a royal oak lecturer (limited availability)
  • access to the national trust's special visits, tours and lectures calendar of events
  • invitation to the annual heritage circle uk study day
  • annual gift book and a complimentary copy of apollo magazine's "national trust historic houses & collections annual"
  • special access to the national trust's arts, buildings and collections bulletin
  • special recognition in the foundation's annual report
  • complimentary student/young professional gift membership.
  • invitation to the guardian and patron dinner in conjunction with the annual heritage circle uk study day
  • invitation to the national trust's calendar of bespoke invite-only events in the uk

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patron2 admit two cards   $10,000  joinrenewalgift

  • $450 is non-tax-deductible
  • free entry to properties of the national trust of england, wales & northern ireland and the national trust for scotland
  • second membership card for additional person living at the same address
  • each membership card admits two persons to national trust sites
  • national trust magazine and royal oak newsletter (three issues per year)
  • national trust of england, wales & northern ireland annual handbook and parking pass
  • reduced-price admission to royal oak's drue heinz lectures
  • access to supporting-level members-only day tours & programs in the u.s.
  • priority registration for the drue heinz lectures in the u.s.

plus:

  • complimentary admission for two to three drue heinz lectures each season, advanced registration and invitation for dinner with a royal oak lecturer (limited availability)
  • access to the national trust's special visits, tours and lectures calendar of events
  • invitation to the annual heritage circle uk study day
  • annual gift book and a complimentary copy of apollo magazine's "national trust historic houses & collections annual"
  • special access to the national trust's arts, buildings and collections bulletin
  • complimentary student/young professional gift membership.
  • invitation to the guardian and patron dinner in conjunction with the annual heritage circle uk study day
  • invitation to the national trust's calendar of bespoke invite-only events in the uk
  • vip bespoke curatorial tours of national trust properties on request. (3 months advance notice necessary)

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