Discover Britain's Historic Houses: Yorkshire

by Simon Jenkins

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Sir Simon David Jenkins, FSA, FRSL is the author of the international bestsellers England’s Thousand Best Churches and England’s Thousand Best Houses, the former editor of The Times and Evening Standard and a columnist for the Guardian. He is chairman of the National Trust.

Reviews

[Chocolategoddess]

This is a lovely book if you mostly pay attention to the images. There are many excellent photographs included of the exteriors and interesting parts of the interiors for some properties. The text leaves a lot to be desired. Jenkins does a thorough job of listing rooms and items he thinks are interesting within them, but it's often in such a supercilious tone that my eyes were quite sore from all the rolling. Perhaps it's just the Yorkshire edition. He's obviously incredibly disdainful of the whole area. Granted, there's a lot to be disdainful about (I left for a reason) but the quality of its historic houses is a dubious one to pick.

[Maureen]

Beautifully illustrated book with sufficient information about all the historic houses in Yorkshire to whet your appetite to go and visit. Thoroughly recommend to anyone who will be in Yorkshire to take with them.