On my return from Herefordshire, I found Chris Ridgway’s wonderful new book on Castle Howard waiting for me:-

It’s not cheap, but very sumptuous and illustrated by spectacular photographs, mostly taken by Mattia Aquila, an Italian architectural photographer, but with a portfolio of exceptionally beautiful photographs by Nick Howard, many taken with a drone and in magically misty weather conditions.

Chris Ridgway’s text is not intended to be the scholarly monograph which I hope he will write next, but is deeply informed throughout by his knowledge of the Castle Howard archive and other secondary sources, including a number of traveller’s descriptions which are new to me. It’s as good an introduction to the house, its history and the garden as it’s possible to be, as well as a visual record of the new work which has been done in the house by Remy Renzullo and Francis Terry recently.