After breakfast we checked out of our hotel and drove to Stourhead House & Gardens in glorious sunshine. We signed in at the National Trust reception area before heading through to the house and gardens. It was around 20 years since our previous visit and it was our first visit to the house, which contains [...]
Archive for the tag 'Wiltshire'
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2021
After breakfast we headed to Stonehenge for which we had pre-booked tickets, arriving earlier than our ticket time but were able to go in due to the low number of visitors. I have never seen Stonehenge’s car park so quiet.
We booked in and collected our ticket to visit the stones (most of the site is [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 26th 2021
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
Stonehenge Walk
10 Comments CherryPie on May 22nd 2021
Filed under Holidays, Out & About, Stanton Manor 2020
Out and About in Bath
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2020
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Stanton Manor 2020
Stanton Manor Garden
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2020
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Castle Combe
Castle Combe is a quintessentially English village often named as the ‘prettiest village in England.’ The village sits in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north west Wiltshire.
Castle Combe has featured regularly as a film location, most recently in The Wolf Man, Stardust and Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. It was also used in [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2020
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Stanton Manor 2020
Stanton Manor – Day Three
We packed our bags and raided the breakfast boxes for items to save for another day then checked out. We had another in-car picnic breakfast before heading off to Berkeley Castle for which we had pre-booked tickets. We arrived before the castle gates opened so on arrival we walked around the Yurt café walled garden [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 29th 2020
