Miscellaneous

• Wearing of Sashes by Ladies in Evening Dress
• Tartans of Scotland – "The official register of all publicly known tartans"
• Collection of Links
• On the Electric Scotland site
• The Highland Dress Store
• "The Gathering of the Clans" – includes the story of the Laing tartan

Much heraldry can be seen in the larger houses in this country. This section includes sites dedicated to such houses and a limited number of sites concerning some of the better known houses.

• Historic Houses Association
• The Country House Database
• Individual Houses
  • Arundel Castle – seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Norfolk
  • Chatsworth – seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Devonshire
  • Woburn Abbey – seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Bedford
  • Drumlanrig Castle – seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry
  • Boughton House – English seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry
  • Bowhill House – Scottish borders seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry
  • Dalkeith Palace – Edinburgh house of the Most Noble the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry
  • Alnwick Castle – seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Northumberland
  • Belvoir Castle – seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Rutland
  • Blenheim Palace – seat of the Most Noble the Duke of Marlborough
  • Longleat House – seat of the Most Hon. the Marquess of Bath
  • Harewood House – seat of the Rt Hon. the Earl of Harewood
  • Beaulieu – seat of the Rt Hon the Lord Montagu
  • Castle Howard
  • Holdenby House
  • Renishaw House – seat of the Sitwell baronets

• Manorial Documents Register (at the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts)
• Lords of the Manor
• The Manorial Society of Great Britian

• King's College Chapel, Cambridge [site currently under reconstruction]
• Collections of links:–
  • CraftWEB
  • Leaded Light Ltd.

• Royal Mint (including sections on Maundy money, the Queen's portrait on coins and coin inscriptions)
• British Currency: one site; another site; a third
• The Story of British and Irish Money
• Royal Canadian Mint
• Royal Australian Mint
• United States Mint
• A very extensive page of links and a second page of links.

• Sundials on the Internet – including mottoes
• Sundial Links

• British Weights and Measures Association
• Inch Perfect – with links
• English weights and measures – with or without frames
• Freedom to Measure

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