Newstead Abbey House & Gardens (National Trust Admission Ecxl)

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Experience over 800 years of history at Newstead Abbey - former home of Lord Byron! Discover Byron's private apartments, the Victorian Kitchen and room displays, plus the cloisters and original West Front of the old priory that still stand despite earthquakes and a civil war. 

A monastic Abbey since the late 12th Century, Newstead retains its medieval character and shows it front and centre through the survicing church structure of the West Front and its cloisters, chapel, stone carvings and manuscripts. Heralded by many as the greatest Romantic poet of the age, Lord Byron lived at Newstead Abbey between 1808 and 1814. See personal items such as letters, furniture, manuscripts and portraits from one of the most notorious lives of the Georgian period as well as his gilt wood bed, pistol and writing desk at which he wrote world famous works including Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812) and She Walks in Beauty (1814). 

Located in 300 acres of parkland, Newstead's grounds owe much of their beauty to the River Leen, which feeds the lakes, ponds, oases and cascades that ornament its gardens and play host to wildlife like peacocks and swans. Visit the Walled Garden, any of 16 oases throughout the estate or 'The Fort'; constructed in 1749 by the 5th Lord Byron as a vantage point for miniature naval reenactments and cannons firing across the lake before being converted into a boathouse in 1877.