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The Best of the Books

Thu 8 Oct · 12:00

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About This Event

At Ickworth we look after 8,000 books. Most of them are on bookshelves or tucked away in stores, with only a few opened every year for visitors to see. We’ll have a team of conservation staff and volunteers set-up at a station in the East Ante room with some of our very best and most significant books. They’ll be happy to chat to visitors about how we care for our books and to turn the pages of the books we’ll have on display. This is an informal, non-ticketed event but offers a unique chance to access our books.

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The Best of the Books takes place on Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 12:00.

The Best of the Books is held at Ickworth Estate in Cambridge (Ickworth Estate, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk).

Tickets for The Best of the Books can be booked via nationaltrust.org.uk using the "Check Tickets & Live Prices" button on this page, which opens the official booking site in a new tab.

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