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This week: a London garden that's been locked away for years, the BBC series that's put a Cotswolds hoarder's manor back on everyone's list, a formal Edinburgh garden tucked off the Royal Mile, next door to where Adam Smith spent his final years, and a Dorset cabinet that spent a year in conservation before coming home. Plus jousting at the crowning place of Scottish kings next weekend. Enjoy.

This week: Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire and its 500 years of stories now available by audio tour, Coventry Charterhouse which pulled in 50,000 visitors in its first year under the National Trust, and a garden on Anglesey that almost nobody knows about. Plus the newly opened Neolithic hall at Stonehenge, and a 5,000-year-old burial chamber on Anglesey with a solstice event coming up on 13 June. Enjoy!

This week: choughs are back at Tintagel after a century away, Rudyard Kipling's East Sussex home turns out to be far stranger inside than the exterior suggests, a Roman fort in County Durham has quietly reopened with some of the best-preserved bath house remains in Britain, and a Mughal palace in the Cotswolds that most people have never heard of. Plus medieval music at Tintern Abbey, minibeasts at Hopetoun, and a military festival in Cumbria all coming up in the next few weeks. Enjoy!

This week: A Cornish garden that runs down to its own private beach, a 600-year-old Kent house with guided tours, Tennyson's Isle of Wight retreat reopened to visitors, and a Civil War re-enactment at a Staffordshire manor next weekend. Good week for planning ahead. Enjoy!

This week: Preston Mill in East Lothian has been grinding grain again for the first time in 30 years, and it appeared in Outlander. Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire opens its doors for guided tours from 20 May. Floors Castle in the Scottish Borders is open for the season, and Halswell Park in Somerset is offering a rare behind-the-scenes tour on 14 May. Plenty to plan around this week and beyond. Enjoy!