Less 3 hours Cambridgeshire Private Tours

A Cambridgeshire Downtown Abbey, legacy of America's gilded age

This experience offers much to lovers of history, gardens and art alike. Anglesey Abbey, just like the fictional Downton Abbey, features a real life American heiress and inspired Cora, Lady Grantham in the TV/Films. It was her legacy, via her father, President of Standard Oil, reputed to be one of the wealthiest men in the U.S., associates of with the Rockefellers and British Royalty, that would bankroll the grand creation of her son, Huttleston Broughton.