Up to 125 miles from London
Prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge. Roman & Georgian Bath. 18th century classical gardens of Stourhead. Elizabethan mansion of Corsham Court. Medieval city of Salisbury and its 13th century Cathedral. Winchester ancient capital of England, 12th century cathedral & King Arthur’s Round Table. Jane Austen’s house. Beaulieu Palace, Abbey and National Motor Museum, finally to Bath.
Southwards
Chartwell, home of Sir Winston Churchill. Hever Castle idyllic setting and home of Queen Anne Boleyn and later William Astor. Penshurst Place Tudor mansion, formal gardens and toy museum. Sissinghurst Gardens, probably the most famous in Britain. Leeds Castle, fairytale setting on a lake. Canterbury the ecclesiastical capital of Britain and its magnificent Cathedral.
Northwest-wards
The upper Thames valley with beautiful villages and towns such as Henley, Goring Maidenhead etc. Ancient university town of Oxford ,‘city of dreaming spires’. Blenheim Palace magnificent home of the Duke’s of Marlborough & birthplace of Churchill.
A day in the Cotswolds, Chipping Camden, The Slaughters, Bourton on the Water, Sezincote House & Gardens, Barnsley House Gardens home of Rosemary Verey one of the great garden designers of the present day. Stratford upon Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace, Holy Trinity Church, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Mary Arden’s House (wonderful talks on life in the 17th century), the Harvard House. Woburn Abbey 18th century treasure house of the Dukes of Bedford, Waddesdon Manor 19th century mansion and gardens of the Rothschild family. And, of course, historic Warwick Castle.
Northeast-wards
Ancient university town of Cambridge. Superb Norman/Gothic Cathedral of Ely which. looms up from the flat fenland. Colchester a Roman city with its huge castle and museum of Roman antiquities. Beth Chatto’s beautiful woodland garden. Suffolk and Constable country. Lavenham medieval wool town crowded with Tudor timber framed houses.
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