Elizabethan historic house and world famous topiary gardens. It is the family home of the Bagots, and contains a collection of Jacobean furniture, fine paintings, the earliest English patchwork and many other objects.
http://www.levenshall.co.uk/
Experience the social history of the English Lake District over the last 300 years. A room dedicated to Arthur Ransome, and another to Postman pat. Part of Abbott Hall Art Gallery in Kendal.
http://www.lakelandmuseum.org.uk
An embroidery of community art, the creation of more than 4000 people in 15 countries over a period of 15 years. The exhibition shows 300 years of social history, beautifully illustrated, in 77 separate narrative crewel embroidered panels telling the story of the Quaker movement.
http://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/
