An accessible guide to researching the history of a country house. Richard Goodenough takes the budding local historian through the various classes of evidence which may be employed including oral history, county histories and travel writing, the landscape, architecture, early written records including Domesday Book, Chancery rolls and monorial surveys, census returns, wills, tax records and maps. He illustrates the process throughout with a case study of his own country house at Trimworth, in Kent.