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Heifer International also received the 2004 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize for its efforts to eliminate hunger and help communities become self-sustaining. It was the first U.S.-based organization to win the $1-million award since 1997. [34] Heifer International received the 2006 and 2008 Social Capitalist award from Fast Company magazine ...
National Trust Entry: Hectares: Acres: Downs Banks: Staffordshire Grassland and Woodland 67 166 Hawksmoor: Staffordshire Woodland 121 300 Toothill Woods ...
Sudbury Hall is a country house in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England.One of the country's finest Restoration mansions, it has Grade I listed building status, [1] and the garden is Grade II listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.
Sign in the Glyderau, with the name of the National Trust in English and Welsh. Below is a list of the stately homes, historic houses, castles, abbeys, museums, estates, coastline and open country in the care of the National Trust in Wales, grouped into the unitary authority areas. Many areas of land owned by the trust, both open-access and ...
The International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) is a network of national trusts and similar non-governmental organisations committed to preserving cultural heritage, "built and natural, tangible and intangible," including architecturally or historically significant items, and areas of natural beauty.
Like many other estates managed by the National Trust, a range of organised events and less formal access arrangements now use Wimpole Park. In 2013, a national partnership between the Trust and parkrun led to the establishment of a free, weekly timed 3.1 miles (5.0 km) run around the park, with over 200 participants every Saturday morning.
16th century stained glass in the Percy Window at Petworth House Chapel, depicting arms of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421–1461) impaling the arms of the Poynings, his wife's family Arms of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset: Seymour, Duke of Somerset, with inescutcheon of pretence of Percy, of three quarters: 1st: Or, a lion rampant azure (Percy modern/Brabant); 2nd: Gules ...
Originally part of the estate of Colsterworth, and still part of its ecclesiastical parish to this day, by the twelfth century Woolsthorpe was a separate manor.It was the seat of various families including the Sleafords, the Pigotts, the Thimelbys, the Burys, and the Underwoods, who in 1623 sold it to Robert Newton, Grandfather of Sir Isaac Newton.