Cotswalds July 1992
Nice place to stay in London:
Hampstead: Charlotte Restaurant - 40 L/night
Krempe's Creperie - Earl's CourtLittle Venice: Jason's Trip on Regents Canal -> Cambden Lock
Rock On - 3 Kentish Town / Vinyl Experience
up Chalk Farm Road to Regent's Park Road (nice)
Folk Music Shop
MOMI (Museum of the Moving Image)
Vecchia Firenze
SOHO: Firth St.
Design Museum
photos of:
Hampstead -> East Finchley [Golders Green]
([Stanford Brook & Bedford Park])
Chelsea Physic Garden
Hammersmith "Kelmscott House" [Ravenscourt Park] (William Morris Society hdqs.)
26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9 TA - 081-741 3735
Ealing [Hangar Lane]
Old Oak [East Acton]
10 miles NW of Leicester: Lady Jane Grey's "cottage" - Bradgate Park ?Tonsl? (nice!)
Leicester: Botanical Garden (nice!)
picked up car
east to Welney: Ouse River washes
south on A 10
Wicken Fen (east of village of Stretham)
Cambridge
southwest to Letchworth
south to Welwyn
west
Oxford - Botanic Garden (STARRED)
Cowley Road: bead store, bookshops, records, comic books
"Welcome to the COSMIC part of town"

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COTSWALDS
to: Stow-on-the-Wold: Wyck Hill Lodge
? Inn Restaurant
Double Diamond bitter (beer) (starred)
Mushrooms in Sauce - very nice
delicious chicken
[NOTE: First Garden City Heritage Museum, 296 Norton Way South
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire SG6 1SU
01462 482710 )Used the AA Ordnance Survey Leisure Guide "Cotswalds" book - excellent!

Monday, July 27 -
Tour One (Driving north from Stow-on-the-Wold):
Moreton-in-Marsh, Rollright Stones
Hidcote Manor (starred) - garden rooms, flowers!
Vale of Evesham
Walk Two: Dover's Hill (northwest of Moreton-in-Marsh)
Driving south: Broadway (Hailes Abbey)
Driving southwest: Cheltenham:
Indian Restaurant - Dilshad Tandoori - 37-39 Winchcombe St. (Prawn Vindaloo)
Cleeve Hill
back to the east to Stow for the night

Tuesday, July 28 -
(Cotswolds Water Park)
Driving south of Stow-on-the-Wold:
Walk Ten: Coln St. Aldwyn (starred) - nice walk along stream (Coln River has trout!)
to Bibury, and return to Coln St. Aldwyn
Burford: Mermaid Inn Restaurant
Woodpecker Cider (starred) / (Old Masters beer sour)
Garlic bread, Stilton & grapes salad, Crab-potato cakes
back to Stow for the night

Wednesday, July 29 -
Driving south of Stow-on-the-Wold:
Wool Weavers: Filkins, north of Lechlade
Driving east of Lechlade
Kelmscott Manor (Walk Eleven) - where William Morris lived 1871-1896) (starred)
OPEN WEDNESDAY ONLY!
(Pusey House and Garden - closed)
Barmsley House - northeast of Cirenchester on A433 (Weds, Thurs, Sat 10-6) (starred)
("Walk Twelve/Thirteen") drive: Windrush along river, to Swinburne (nice)
with walk to medieval church
Burford: Chinese restaurant
Whiteshoots: The Ridge Guesthouse - Bourton-on-the-Water (just south of Stow-on-the-Wold)

Thursday, July 30 - Right next to Bourton-on-the-Water:
(Walk Fourteen) Slaughters: Lower (starred) & Upper,
then northwest to Snowshill - cute central church and yard
and tried to walk to Stanton, instead drove north to
Domestic Wild Fowl Trust (Honeybourne)
then drove back south to
Bourton-on-the-Water: Country Cottage restaurant, and canal walk
Bourton-on-the-Water for the night

Friday, July 31 -
Cleeve Hill Commons walk
Cheltenham museum / art gallery (starred)
nice mall: Beeches
Farm Park - Rare Breeds Survival Center
Sezincote Garden: Indian-style buildings, water gardens
Moreton-in-Marsh (laundramat)
Bourton-on-the-Water for the night

Saturday, August 1 -
Crickley Hill walk: archaeological site
(Cirencester Brewery Court: crafts)
(Daneway House)
Stroud (+ Whiteway commune to the northeast)
(Painswick Crafts Fair 10-6)
west to Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust (almost as nice as my favorite, Arundel)
"Historic Docks"
(Gloucester: National Waterways Museum)
(+ Whitley Court: commune)
(National Birds of Prey - Newent)
north (through Gloucester) to Wales

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WALES
Monmouth: tourist office (great funny lady)
through Abergavenny & Brecon Beacons
Brecon: Llandrew: The Old Rectory

Sunday, August 2 -
west through Black "Mountains"
forget southwest Wales - farms, middle-class houses, boring
looks like Ireland
west to: southwest coast trip
(Pembrokeshire) St. David's Head, Whitesands Bay
north up coast
Cardigan: tourist office (another nice lady)
(Aberystwyth)
Snowdonia Park - finally scenic
Porthmadog: Minffordd
The Harbor Restaurant: lobster, seafood, raspberries and cream
Blackthorn is the dry cider
((Portmeirion village))

Monday, August 3 -
north through Snowdonia
(Betwys-y-Coed)
Bodnant Garden (starred)
south to
Betwys-y-Coed: tourist office
south through Snowdonia
east (through Horseshoe Pass)
on little narrow mountain road without parking
Llantysilo B&B - just north of Llangollen
Rhywl: pub (dinner) - Felinfoll bitters
y = the
llan = church (ll = hy)
coed = trees
The Country Compass (AA) - good environmental history of Britain

Tuesday, August 4 -
Llangollen
southwest to Snowdonia
Dolgellan: tourist office
southeast to
Llandloes - nice little Welsh town with "garden suburb"
Llandrindod Wells - nice Welsh town
(Builth Wells)
Hay-on-Wye: bookstore town (and stayed for the night)

Wednesday, August 5 -
Hay-on-Wye: bookstores
southwest to
Monmouth tourist office
south to (Tintern Abbey)
and cross river to
Chepstow: Beachley Road: Waltham B&B
(Chepstow has "Garden City Way")
(Afon Gwy restaurant)
The Grape Escape restaurant
Strongbow - another nice dry cider
invited to tea & chat with B&B owners!

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LEAVING WALES
Thursday, August 6 -
south across Severn River to Somerset:
east to (east of Bristol) Castle Combe
Lacock (south of Chippenham)
southwest through Glastonbury
southwest to
Taunton: Hestercombe House (Jekyll & Lutens garden)
(wrong road, wound up on freeway)
southeast to east-north-east of Ilminster: Barrington Court
(Ilminster - no tourist office anymore)
((Tintinhull - closed))
Corton Denham B&B
Sherborne - medieval center & walk (starred): Italian restaurant
tea & chat with another couple

Friday, August 7 -
Dorset: Sparkford Motor Museum
south to Plush
coast: "Isle" of Purbeck
north to Wiltshire:
Salisbury tourist office
north through the Woodfords & Wilsford
Stonehenge
Woodhenge
stop at Woodford bridge - nice
Salisbury: The Gondola Italian restaurant
(note about: Knightshayes Garden)

Saturday, August 8 -
north to Stonehenge
Abebury
east and southeast to
Surrey: Guildsford - canal walk
Godalming: Mongolian BBQ (starred)
Chiddingfold 'Redwood' - High Street Green - beautiful country house (BIG STAR)

Sunday, August 9 -
Wisey at Woking 3.95 L - daily 10-7 (sunset)
Waterloo to Esher, West Byfleet or Woking on the A3, close to the M25 (exit)
clear sign from M25
Goddard's House - Abbinger Common, Dorking - 4 1/2 miles southwest
reserve: (0306) 730487
north to
Windsor Great Park: Saville (& Valley) gardens
return south to
Guildsford: fish and chips
Chittingfold again for the night

Monday, August 10 -
(281 & 284 Portobello Road - beads)
Woking: Wisley Garden - RHS (BIG STAR)
(Embankment gardens)
(Transport Museum)
(Victoria & Albert museum?)
(Geffrye Museum? - Kingsland Road - closed Monday - Old Street or Liverpool station)
(Natural History museum: tectonics)
Windsor tourist office
Iver

NEXT TIME:
William Morris Gallery
Lloyd Park, Forest Road, London E17 4PP
081-527 3782
open first Sunday of month only ("Tu-Sat")
A503 from London/ Forest Road (leads to forest)
Walhamstow Central (underground station)William Morris Gallery!
Sissinghurst garden, Kent
Tintinhull Garden - Somerset
Knighthayes Garden - Devoneccles cakes - mmm
for John Russo: chocolate aero candy barnnn

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