The Stately Homes
Houses Near Cities
Every house within 40 miles of a major UK city, sorted by real distance - not a blogger's rough guess. Cities sorted largest to smallest.
Houses near London
20 houses sit within 40 miles of London - the Tower itself is on the doorstep, with Windsor, Hever and Leeds House further out into Berkshire and Kent.
Houses near Birmingham
19 houses are within 40 miles of Birmingham, from Dudley's ruined hilltop keep in the city's own backyard to Warwick's much-visited towers 20 miles south.
Houses near Glasgow
21 houses are within 40 miles of Glasgow - fewer than Edinburgh's count, and the city's own house didn't survive, but Bothwell and Crookston are both a short trip out and genuinely worth it.
Houses near Leeds
15 houses sit within 40 miles of Leeds, spread across Yorkshire's ridings - Knaresborough and Skipton out to the north-west, Pontefract and Sandal closer to home, York's Clifford's Tower a short trip east.
Houses near Edinburgh
37 houses sit within 40 miles of Edinburgh, from the fortress on the doorstep to Rosslyn-country ruins out toward the Pentlands. Sorted by real distance, not a blogger's rough guess.
Houses near Liverpool
16 houses are within 40 miles of Liverpool, though most of the notable ones - Conwy, Flint, Chester - sit across the Welsh border rather than in Merseyside itself.
Houses near Manchester
Just 10 houses sit within 40 miles of Manchester, one of the thinnest counts on this list. The nearest are a 20-mile drive out - Halton to the west, or Peveril in the Peak District.
Houses near Bristol
28 houses sit within 40 miles of Bristol, the second-highest count of any city on this list - Chepstow and the Wye Valley ruins just over the Severn, Cardiff and Caerphilly a little further into South Wales.
Houses near Cardiff
34 houses are within 40 miles of Cardiff - the highest density of any UK city on this list, courtesy of South Wales's cluster of Norman and Edwardian houses.
Houses near Newcastle
21 houses sit within 40 miles of Newcastle, including its own city-centre keep and the Northumberland coast fortresses a little further out.
Houses near Southend-on-Sea
23 houses sit within 40 miles of Southend-on-Sea - Hadleigh's clifftop ruin is practically on the doorstep, with most of the rest, from Rochester's great Norman keep to Leeds House, across the estuary in Kent.