The Landmark Trust is a British charity that rescues buildings of historic interest or architectural importance and gives them a new life by making them available to stay in for holidays. The trust owns Lundy Island off the coast of north Devon but the majority of its properties are considerably smaller. Charity is a term in Christian theology (one of the three theological virtues), meaning loving kindness towards others; it is held to be the ultimate perfection of the human spirit, because it is said to both glorify and reflect the nature of God. ... This article is about vacation as time off. ... The Old Light, Lundy For a map, see the end of this article Lundy is an island in the Bristol Channel of Great Britain, about a third of the way from Devon to the coast of South Wales. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...

For its 2005 season there were 178 buildings available. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

As an example of the variety of structures it owns and their geographical range the following were opened to the public to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2005.

Scotland

• Old Place of Monrieth, Portwilliam, Dumfries and Galloway
• Castle of Park, Glenluce, Dumfries and Galloway
• Collegehill House, Roslin, near Edinburgh

England Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland. ... Rosslin is a village in Midlothian, Scotland south of Edinburgh. ...

• Brinkburn Mill, near Rothbury, Northumberland
• Morpeth Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland
• The Grammar School, Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire
• Culloden Tower, Richmond, North Yorkshire
• Beamsley Hospital, near Skipton, North Yorkshire
• Ingestre Pavilion, Tixall, Staffordshire
• Langley Gatehouse, near Acton Burnell, Shropshire
• The White House, Aston Munslow, Shropshire
• Shelwick Court, near Hereford
• Abbey Gatehouse, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
• Old Campden House, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
• Warden Abbey, Old Warden, Bedfordshire
• Methwold Old Vicarage, Methwold, Norfolk
• Appleton Water Tower, Sandringham, Norfolk
• New Inn, Peasenhall, Suffolk
• Martello Tower, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
• Princelet Street, Spitalfields, London
• The Grange, Ramsgate, Kent
• Sackville House, East Grinstead, West Sussex
• Laughton Place, near Lewes, East Sussex
• Wilmington Priory, near Eastbourne, East Sussex
• Lundy, Bristol Channel, Devon
• Woodsford Castle, near Dorchester, Dorset
• The Old Hall, Croscombe, Somerset
• Woodspring Priory, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Gurney Manor, Cannington, Somerset
• The Priest's House, Holcombe Regis, Devon
• South Street, Great Torrington, Devon
• Wortham Manor, Lifton, Devon
• The Egyptian House, Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall

Jersey Rothbury is a town in Northumberland, England, located on the River Coquet near the Simonside Hills and the Northumberland National Park. ... For other places with this name, see Northumberland Northumberland is a county in England, on the border with Scotland. ... Morpeth is a small market town in Northumberland, England. ... North Yorkshire is a county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ... The town of Richmond as seen from the top of the keep of Richmond Castle Richmond is an attractive Georgian market town on the river Swale in North Yorkshire. ... Skipton is a town in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the Midlands of England. ... Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Salops) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and the Welsh preserved counties of Powys and Clwyd. ... (This article is about Hereford in England. ... Tewkesbury is a historic town in Gloucestershire, England. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced [ ˈglɒstəʃəʳ]; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a ceremonial and administrative county in southwest England. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Old Warden is a village in Bedfordshire, England just west of the town of Biggleswade, widely known as the home of the Shuttleworth Trust, an early organisation committed to the preservation of transport artifacts, primarily cycles, cars, and aeroplanes, produced in the early part of the 20th century. ... Bedfordshire is a county in England. ... For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... Sandringham can refer to: The village in Norfolk, United Kingdom Sandringham House in the aforementioned village The Sandringham Time system The suburb of Melbourne, Australia The railway line in Melbourne The railway station in Melbourne at the end of the aforementioned line This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... This article is about the English county. ... Martello towers are small defensive forts built by the British Empire at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. ... Aldeburgh is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. ... Categories: UK geography stubs | London Districts ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Note: See Ramsgate, Australia for the Sydney suburb of Ramsgate and Ramsgate, KwaZulu-Natal for a town in South Africa. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... East Grinstead is an historic town in north-east West Sussex in the UK near the East Sussex, Surrey and Kent borders, and only a few miles from Ashdown Forest. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... This is about Lewes in England. ... East Sussex is a county in South East England. ... For other places called Eastbourne, see Eastbourne (disambiguation). ... The main road through Dorchester Dorchester is a market town in south west Dorset, England, situated on the River Frome and A35 road 20 miles west of Poole and five miles north of Weymouth. ... This page is about the county of Somerset in the United Kingdom. ... Weston-super-Mare is an English seaside resort town in North Somerset, population 65,000 (1991 estimate). ... Great Torrington (generally abbreviated to Torrington, though it should be noted that the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a small market town in the north of Devon in England. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is the part of Great Britains south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau. ...

• Nicolle Tower, St Clement's, Jersey

Wales

• West Blockhouse, Dale, Pembrokeshire
• Church Cottage, Llandygwydd, Cardiganshire
• Rhiwddolion, Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd

Pembrokeshire (Welsh: Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales in the United Kingdom. ... Cardiganshire (Sir Aberteifi in Welsh) is a traditional county in Wales that came into being in 1282. ... Betws-y-Coed is a town in the county borough of Conwy, traditional county of Caernarfonshire, north Wales. ... Gwynedd is an administrative county in Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. ...

External links

• Official website (http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/)