A very small bundle of villages and hamlets in the west of the county, Minster Lovell may be an unassuming sort of place now, but in the middle ages one of England’s richest men called the shots from this place.

Minster Lovell Hall is run by English Heritage, maintaining the beautiful ruins of a late-medieval manor house built for the Baron of Lovell and Holland.

The building has been abandoned since the 1700s and the whole site is framed by the River Windrush and its picnic-friendly banks.