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    WONDERS OF WOBURN

    Jun 07, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS NATASHA FOGES

    You might know it for its historic herd of deer, which roam free on the estate’s 3000-acre deer park. Or for the adjacent safari park, home to big cats and elephants. But did you know that Woburn Abbey holds a world-class art collection? That its grounds are the most realised of landscape designer Humphry Repton’s visions? Or that it was the birthplace of the afternoon tea tradition?

    This splendid Bedfordshire country house was built on the site of a Cistercian monastery; in 1538 the Abbot was executed for treason following the Reformation, and the Abbey was gifted to the Russell family by Henry VIII.

    In 1619 Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, moved in and the family has lived here ever since, the earldom being elevated to a

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