Wentworth is home to Wentworth Woodhouse, which with its 600ft frontage is the biggest of any house in England. It is impossible via the medium of the internet and this website to detail the history of this magnificent mansion and the people connected with it.

Whilst in private ownership, visitors to Wentworth can still walk through beautiful, traditional English parkland and view the house and other features from close quaters. Incidentally the house provided the setting for the major BBC production of 'Wives & Daughters'.

Although Wentworth Woodhouse is the dominant feature of the local area, Wentworth village itself is a beautiful example of a traditional estate village which has remained largely unchanged for centuries.

In and around the village are a large number of 'follies' (buildings of a more or less purely decorative nature). There are principally four great ones - Hoober Stand, Keppel's Column, The Needles Eye and The Mausoleum together with at least a dozen others of only slightly less importance.

Today we decorate our gardens with bird baths, stone troughs and gnomes but if our surroundings were as extensive as those of Wentworth Woodhouse we should need something rather larger: the Rockingham and Fitzwilliam families did.