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National Treasures

Lincolnshire’s National Trust properties reopen to visitors this month after closure for over-winter conservation… The Queen’s Bedroom at Belton House. Belton House, Grantham… The Brownlow Family is regarded as being synonymous with Grantham, and with the eponymous country house in their manor. But in fact, the manor was under the custodianship of the Pakenham family until the early 1700s. Little is known about the family, although the earliest records in the area go back to the 13th century and there are references to a noble family of the same name in church records nearby… though local history of that era is quite understandably a bit sketchy. What is known, though, is that King James VI stayed with Sir Henry Packenham...