That slower pace we enjoyed at Ferry Meadows? We liked it so much much, we’re doing again at Cirencester, an historic market town in Gloucestershire, frequently referred to as the ‘Capital of the Cotswolds’.
That slower pace we enjoyed at Ferry Meadows? We liked it so much much, we’re doing again at Cirencester, an historic market town in Gloucestershire, frequently referred to as the ‘Capital of the Cotswolds’.
I don’t know if it’s ever happened to you, but sometimes when you’re on holiday…you just need a holiday.
Our journey takes us to Peckover House, a Georgian townhouse built in 1722, home to the Peckover family for 150 years.
It’s fantasticly old world, a grand, 500 year old red brick manor house sat atop a moat.
We might have burned a stack of miles to get here, but there’s an absolute treat in northeast England – the royal family’s private winter retreat, Sandringham.
Norwich, a cathedral town that began as the Anglo Saxon settlement ‘Northwic’ in the 5th – 7th centuries, growing to England’s second largest and wealthiest city driven by a booming wool and textile trade. Today Norwich has the distinction of being the most complete medieval city in the UK.
We’re in Bury St Edmunds and there’s a garden! And for once it’s not burnt to a sad brown! I could weep in gratitude.
We’ve gone from the grandeur of titled estates to the more modest pace of successful merchant life. We’re visiting Paycockes House, home to Thomas Paycockes, a 16th century Tudor merchant in Coggeshall, Essex.
Built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, Chief Minister to King James I, Hatfield has a dual history. There’s the 400 year old grand Jacobean masterpiece of course, capturing a brief but fabulously opulent moment in architectural history, and then there’s remains of the ‘Old Palace’where Elizabeth I lived most of her young life prior to her ascension to the throne.
That appointment that called us away from Cambridge? It’s with a company that buys motorhomes.