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Creswell Crags is one of the UK’s most important Ice Age sites and at only an hour or so away from Nottingham, a relatively local place I’ve been meaning to visit for some time.
St Mary’s Church, Sudeley
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The lovely, and somewhat compact, St Mary’s Church in the grounds of Sudeley Castle is the final resting place of Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth wife and the only one to survive him. She is the only queen to be buried on private land.
Sudeley Castle and Gardens
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Sudeley Castle is famous as being the home to Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s last wife and the only one to survive him. It is also the place where Lady Jane Grey, Katherine’s ward and Queen herself for only 9 days before her execution at the Tower of London, resided for some time. Lady Jane is probably my favourite historical figure, someone I’ve been fascinated by since a school trip to Bradgate Park, Lady Jane’s supposed birthplace, so I was very interested to walk the same hallways she did.
Chedworth Roman Villa
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Chedworth Roman Villa is one of the largest Roman villas in Britain and was rediscovered by the Victorians over 150 years ago. Now in the care of the National Trust it’s a really impressive site allowing you access to the mosaic floors so typical of Roman buildings, as well as the bathhouse rooms.
Categories: England, Gloucestershire
Tags: Chedworth, Chedworth Roman villa, conservation, mosaics, photo post, Roman villa, Romans, ruins, Victorians
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Avebury
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Avebury is one of the world’s largest prehistoric stone circles and we visited it in July in conjunction with visits to Stonehenge and Avebury Manor.
Categories: England, Wiltshire
Tags: Avebury, Avebury Stone Circle, photo post, sheep
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Wollaton Hall Wildlife 2016
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The deer at Wollaton Hall are currently rutting so I thought that would be a good opportunity to take some photographs (being mindful not to get too close, of course!) Below are some of the photos I captured of the stags, plus geese and swans around the lake.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: bird, deer, deer park, goose, photo post, stag, swan, Wollaton Hall, wollaton hall and deer park
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Stonehenge 2016
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I don’t really think that Stonehenge requires much of an introduction and I have written about my first visit to the site here. This time I made the return because my brother had never been and wanted to go and we happened to be holidaying fairly nearby.
Categories: England, Wiltshire
Tags: artefacts, english heritage, Neolithic, Neolithic houses, photo post, pottery, remains, skeleton, souvenirs, Stonehenge
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Nottingham Architecture Special: Watson Fothergill Contd.
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As a follow-up to my earlier post on the work of Watson Fothergill, Nottingham architect, here are some more of his beautiful buildings. The first is the Rose of England pub, built in 1899. I’ve often admired the Gothic look of it and it’s immediately recognisable as Fothergill’s work.
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