Newby Hall, Country house museum in North Yorkshire, England
Newby Hall is a country house museum in northeastern England with neoclassical architecture, white stone facades, and large windows across three floors. The estate includes extensive gardens, a woodland area, and a miniature railway for visitors.
The house was built between 1695 and 1705 with architects Sir Christopher Wren, John Carr, and Robert Adam involved in its development. Over the following decades, it was remodeled several times to accommodate the artworks brought back from Italy.
The interior displays furniture, paintings, and Roman antiquities collected by William Weddell during his Italian travels in the 1760s. These objects are arranged in the rooms as an 18th-century traveler would have presented them.
Visitors can explore the rooms, gardens, and miniature railway from spring through autumn, with group tours available by advance booking. Paths through the gardens are mostly level and easy to walk.
The estate holds the national collection of Cornus trees with specimens from the 1930s, the largest dogwood collection in Britain. Some of these trees bloom in early summer in different shades.
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