Wrest Park
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Wrest Park is a country estate located in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion.
Wrest House, from the south
Wrest House c.1708. This building was replaced in the 1830s, but the formal parterre elements of the garden remain from this time.
The Orangery
Pavilion designed by Thomas Archer
Silsoe
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Silsoe is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. The village used to be on the main A6 road but a bypass around the village was opened in 1981 at a cost of £1.6m.
Silsoe village sign 2000 Millennium Year
Wrest Park House, formerly home to research laboratories, now looked after by English Heritage