Calke Abbey is located between Leceister and Nottingham. What sets this family pile out from others is that it has been preserved in the state of decay it was found in when the last member of the family to live there died in 1981. At that point he was only living in two of the rooms of the house. The house is filled with hundreds of years worth of collected possessions of the family, including fastidiously arranged displays of hundreds of stuffed birds. It was an amazing building to explore; a treasure trove of all sorts of miscellanioud things, like Edwardian clothes and a pristine 200 year old four poster silk bed, an unusable wedding present that had been left in storage for a couple of hundred years! It's really rather sad to think about the last owner, surrounded by all sorts of precious items but unable to care for them and living in an almost poverty stricken state. The gardens were rather nice. Overall a very enjoyable place to spend an afternoon.
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