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Chelsea and Maxell Cherry Gardens
6 Comments CherryPie on May 3rd 2023
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Easter Monday – Hodnet Hall
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
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Easter Sunday – Witley Court
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
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, Tewkesbury 2022
Victoria Pleasure Gardens
Victoria Pleasure Gardens were created by public subscription to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. These gardens were popular with the elegant Edwardians and in 1910 Walkers of Tewkesbury installed a band-stand which was in regular use until the 1950s. In 2007 a combination of severe flooding and reduced funding devastated the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2022
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Windsor 2022
Ray Mill Island
The island’s name dates from when the Ray family managed a flour mill here. Boulter’s weir is situated at one end of the small island.
The weir is the latest in a series built here over the last 600 years. Early weirs were solid banks of interwoven stakes filled with stones built across the river. No-one [...]
Comments Off CherryPie on Jul 6th 2022
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Sunday Walk Around Hodnet Hall Gardens
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 4th 2022
… a walk in pictures
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 4th 2022
