Castle Howard trees and plants from across the world is set in a beautiful landscape of parkland, lakes and ponds. The charitable trust that runs the Yorkshire Arboretum also manages Ray Wood. The house is Grade I listed and there are many other listed structures on the estate, several of which are on the Heritage at Risk Register. In addition to its most famous appearance in film as Brideshead in both the 1981 television serial and 2008 film adaptations of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited", Castle Howard has been used as a backdrop for a number of other cinematic and television settings.
Alan Howard (cricketer) Alan Howard (cricketer) Alan Raymond Howard (11 December 1909 – March 1993) was an English cricketer. Howard was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. He was born at Leicester, Leicestershire. Howard made his first-class debut for Glamorgan against Worcestershire at New Road, Worcester, in the 1927 County Championship. A semi-regular in the Glamorgan side, he made 58 further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Lancashire at Old Trafford in the 1933 County Championship. Howard's role within the Glamorgan team was as a batsman, in that role he scored 1,181 runs in his 59