Madresfield - The Real Brideshead - One House, One Family, One Thousand Years

Madresfield Court has been the home of the Lygon family for nearly a thousand years. They were the model for the doomed Marchmain family in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Waugh was a regular visitor in the 1930s, one in a long line of writers, composers, painters, royals and rebels who passed through Madresfield's doors...