It has been a while since I visited Lyveden New Bield, a National Trust site near Corby. It is in a wonderfully isolated location, no traffic noise, just bird song and the whoosh of the odd glider overhead. “Begun by Sir Thomas Tresham to symbolise his Catholic faith, Lyveden remains incomplete and virtually unaltered since work stopped on his death in 1605.” His son was a gunpowder plotter and he never saw the building as he was under house arrest at the bishop’s palace in Ely. It is a symbol of the Elizabethan age with quirky grounds and a sizeable orchard. When I first visited you just parked on the lane and walked up, then they put a little car park in and now it has a proper car park and you enter via the manor house which is used for cafe and toilets. A very good upgrade adding a nice one mile walk up to the old Lodge. It was a pretty nice day for a visit as well with the moated Lodge standing in a wildflower meadow.