A Look inside Burghley House ( Stamford Lincolnshire )

Video shows our visit to Burghley House on 29th March 2023. Burghley House is a 16th century English country house near Stamford Lincolnshire. The house was built by William Cecil the 1st Lord of Burghley (1520 - 1598). William Cecil was the High Treasurer and Chief Minister to Queen Elizabeth I The house is still occupied by direct descendants of William Cecil. There is so much to see in the house including in the Brown drawing room a travelling bed used by Princess Victoria when she visited in 1836. Furniture made for Louis XIV in the Blue Silk Bedroom. There are a number of frescoes painted by Antonio Verio ( 1639-1707) with characters from mythology as well as a few of himself! The most striking of these frescoes are the Heaven Room and Hell Staircase. There is also an exhibition of the 6th Marquess David Cecil's Olympic achievements which include Gold and Silver medals won at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic games. Burghley House has been used in many films and tv programmes including amongst others De Vinci Code, Pride and Prejudice, The Crown, Middlemarch, Bleak House.