My detailed and extensive research into this remarkable house and its owners, combined with many years' experience as a tour guide there, has resulted in my book "Littlecote Lives and Legends - The Story of a Great Estate and its Famous Families"

Littlecote House, by the River Kennet on the Wiltshire/Berkshire border, is a beautiful rambling house with many claims to fame, not least that Henry VIII courted Jane Seymour there.  Not one house but three - a medieval manor,  home to the De Calstone family, passed on marriage to the Darrells who added the Tudor manor, and the iconic Elizabethan manor, built by Sir John Popham following his controversial acquisition of the property as a result of a mysterious death in highly suspicious circumstances.

A marvellous house with a colourful history, you will find it full of myths, mystery and even murder.  Read about its most famous residents, "Wild" William Darrell and Sir John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England to Queen Elizabeth I.  Explore the Littlecote legend and read the deposition of Mother Barnes the blindfolded midwife, said to have been brought secretly from Great Shefford to  the house to attend a masked lady in labour.  What happened to the newborn baby and who put the curse on the house?