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Hodnet Hall gardens…

2 Comments CherryPie on May 29th 2023

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Robert Frost

6 Comments CherryPie on May 28th 2023

… for lunch and an afternoon stroll around Powis Castle gardens

6 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2023

The weather was glorious so we visited Hampton Court in Hope Under Dinmore, Herefordshire. We had lunch in the orangery where I chose a Coronation Chicken sandwich before taking a guided tour of the castle. After the castle tour we enjoyed a walk around the gardens which are currently between seasons.  The maze and its [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2023

6 Comments CherryPie on May 3rd 2023

After lunch on Easter Monday we visited Hodnet Hall gardens which is always a lovely place to visit. We also had high hopes for the illusive piece of cake that we missed out on during our previous days travels. On arrival it was suggested that we didn’t park in the visitor car park due to [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 23rd 2023

Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire, England is a ruined Italianate mansion. Built for the Foleys in the seventeenth century on the site of a former manor house, it was enormously expanded in the early nineteenth century by the architect John Nash for Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley. The estate was later sold to the Earls of Dudley, who undertook a second massive reconstruction [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 20th 2023

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