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Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural midland
county with its excellent local building stone from the limestone belt. The Elizabethan
Renaissance Kirby Hall, the late seventeenth century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's
stately Baroque Easton Neston and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of
changing taste through the centuries. The great houses are complemented by smaller buildings
of great character, supreme among them Sir Thomas Tresham's eccentric and ingenious
Triangular Lodge at Rushton. Of no less interest in this county of 'spires and squires' are the fine
village churches, from Early Saxon Brixworth to the noble early Gothic buildings which so
inspired the Victorians.
