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The drawing room ceiling depicts Venus and Cupid soaring through the sky.

Charity invites visitors to Bedfordshire’s Wrest Park to ‘lie down and look up’

Wrest Park (Picture courtesy of English Heritage)

If you love seeing Wrest Park on our TV screens, you're in luck

Wrest Park (Picture courtesy of English Heritage)

What's being filmed this time? Wrest Park to shut as camera crews roll in

The portraits of Florence and Henry (Images via English Heritage)

Wrest Park on the hunt for lost portraits

Wrest Park (Picture: English Heritage)

Fireworks in February?: Be warned, Bedfordshire's Wrest Park is filming

Pose with a Shaun the Sheep sculpture as part of Wrest Park's ‘find the flock’ festive trail

Join Shaun the Sheep Christmas trail at Bedfordshire's Wrest Park

Film cameras will be rolling into Wrest Park between September 12 and October 2

Cameras to roll at Wrest Park which is closing for ‘exciting filming project’

31 fun-filled summer activities for children - for every day in August

31 fun-filled summer activities for every day in August

Wrest Park and, inset, Taskmaster's Alex Horne (Picture: English Heritage)

English Heritage and Taskmaster team up for summer fun at Wrest Park

Rachel Turnbull, English Heritage’s senior collections conservator, views the mysterious portrait (Picture: English Heritage)

Could this mysterious painting loaned to Wrest Park be Lady Jane Grey?

(Photo: English Heritage)

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The plans could impact iconic sites, including one featured in Netflix’s Bridgerton 📉
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The 9 most desirable English counties for history and culture

Halloween at Wrest Park

Have a frightfully fun time at Wrest Park this Hallowe'en half term

Wrest Park (Picture: English Heritage)

Is the next series of Bridgerton being filmed at Wrest Park?

Activists sitting by Stonehenge after it was sprayed orange (Photo: Just Stop Oil / Supplied)

Breaking Watch: Just Stop Oil 'paint' world-famous UK monument

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Volunteering opportunities at Wrest Park, Silsoe

English Heritage will be staging Night of Legends at Wrest Park (English Heritage)

Wrest Park takes visitors back to medieval times in special evening performances

Tickets are now on sale for Christmas at Wrest Park

Tickets now on sale for Wrest Park Christmas light trail

Castle for sale UK: 956-year-old fortress used by Kings and Queens hits the market - but there’s a catch

956-year-old castle used by Kings and Queens is on the market

English Heritage now has adult fancy dress at Wrest Park (Picture: Jim Holden)

Adults only: Wrest Park gives grown ups the chance to play dress up

‘Army’ of bees force English Heritage castle closure as ‘terrified’ locals caught in massive swarm

‘Army’ of bees forces English castle to shut

The St George’s Festival is on April 22 and April 23 (Picture courtesy of English Heritage)

St George’s Festival returns to Wrest Park in Bedfordshire this weekend

The 'blue plaque' commemorating Rishi Sunak's Fixed Penalty on Squires Gate Lane, Blackpool.

Pranksters erect blue plaque at spot where PM was hit with £100 fine

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Woman calls for better disability access to Wrest Park, in Silsoe

Wrest Park (English Heritage Trust)

Bedfordshire tops Reddit's underrated staycation list

St George’s Festival returns to Wrest Park this month

St George’s Festival returns to Wrest Park in Silsoe after three-year break

King's Cross takes the crown for destinations

Wrest at War

Take cover as Wrest Park in Bedfordshire propels you to wartime Britain
There's a whole host of events over the weekend
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Gestural Greetings by Kemka Ajoku

New photography exhibition at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire highlights lives of bla...

Many people visit Stonehenge on the summer solstice to see the sun rise (Photo: Getty Images)

Stonehenge summer solstice live stream pulled after people defy travel advice

Children's writer Enid Blyton sitting in her garden in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire (Photo: George Konig/Getty Images)

'Racism, xenophobia and lack of literary merit': what English Heritage said abou...

Scenes depicting Venus and Adonis and Aeneas and Anchises are being restored by expert conservators

English Heritage restores 18th century statues at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire

Dover Castle is one historical site set to reopen on March 29 (Getty Images)

This is how travel restrictions will change on March 29

Olive Buller on the left

Granddaughter in Canada recognises First World War photograph of nurse in Bedfor...

Visit these three ghostly haunts this Halloween - if you dare

Convalescents at Wrest Park taking a camel ride on a day out - the colourised version of the photograph

I'm just taking the camel for a ride - colourised archive pictures at Wrest Park...

One of the mysteries behind Stonhenge has been revealed (Photo: Shutterstock)

One of the mysteries behind Stonehenge has been solved - thanks to a 60 year old...

The summer solstice at Stonehenge will be streamed live online - here's how to w...

‘To those who gave so much, we thank you’ cheers for our heroes

Audience with Father Christmas at Wrest Park

Enjoy an audience with Father Christmas at Wrest Park for yuletide tales and tre...

King George VI tours Wrest Park in 1948

Discover royal stamp of approval for agricultural research base in Silsoe after ...

Cowpers Lodge

Glorious manor house in award-winning village

St George's Festival at Wrest Park. Picture June Essex/English Heritage

Pomp and pageantry as St George and the dragon meet again at Wrest Park in Silso...

Victorian Delights

No Wrest for kids at Park

The Three Inch Fools comprise five performers and a number of instruments

Romeo and Juliet to get the Fools' treatment in open air at Elstow
Five actors with all manner of musical instruments present an inventive take on Shakespeare's timeless story of romance and tragedy this week.
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An Audience with Father Christmas at Wrest Park

Head to Wrest Park for An Audience With Father Christmas

Copies of photographs and paintings of Wrest Park,held by Timothy John Palmer at West Woodyates Manor.Acknowledgment should read 'From a private collection'For details of copyright please refer to Dr Andrew Hann.Portrait of Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas, Oct 1915 Scrapbook 1915 Vol.II

Remembering a hero

Wrest Park

Wrest Park to host music on a sunny Sunday afternoon

Fun for all the family at Bedfordshire Country Fair this weekend

Wrest Park

Vintage steam and dog show at Wrest Park country fair

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In Pictures: Wrest Park at War

Wrest Park unveils plaque to celebrate 300th anniversary of Lancelot "Capability" Brown's birth PNL-160523-132649001

Garden celebrates 300 years of landscape design

St George's Day 2106 at Wrest Park PNL-160425-130658001

GALLERY: St George meets the Normans on saint's day

Wrest Park launch partnership with Girlguiding Bedfordshire

Treasure Quest sets guiding world on heritage trail around Wrest Park

Halloween at Wrest Park.

Gallery: Half term’s a scream at Wrest Park

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