ENGLAND COTSWALDS TRIP PLANNING

7/18 Saturday SF -> LONDON
Sunday - sleep: Charlotte Restaurant B&B, W. Hampstead L25 for 2 =
Monday - on way to Leicester: Letchworth & Welwyn (& other) garden cities
Tues 7/21 - Sat 7/25 DAVID AT LEICESTER
Tues - around Leicester: Cambridge University Botanical Gardens
Weds - Chelsea & Chelsea Physic Garden & walking tour of London
Kelmscott House, Hammersmith: centre for William Morris studies
Thurs - London: Windsor Great Park: Savill & Valley Gardens + record shopping + books
Friday - Royal Hort Soc Gardens at Wisley ("south of London") (& garden cities)
Sat - north of Cambridge: Wicken Fen & Ouse Washes at Welney - natural wildfowl areas

7/26 Sun ** take boat along canals from Cambden Lock ** & toy museum(s)
& GLOUCESTERSHIRE / COTSWALDS WAY
Mon - Broadway, Hidcote Manor gardens
Tues - Sezincote garden, Stow on the Wold, Slaughters
Weds - Bourton-on-the-Water, *Barnsley House gardens
Thurs - Kelmscott Manor (William Morris), Pusey House & garden
Fri - Cotswalds Way & Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust & Castle Combe

Gloucester: National Waterways Museum

8/1 Sat - Wye River Valley: "garden" / ** Hay on Wye - town of books
& Brecon Beacons National Park + Tintern Abbey
(?Portmeiron "Italian-y coast town")

Tues - North Wales:
Tal-y-Cafu?, Colwin Bay / Bodnant Gardens / Betws-y-Coed
Caernarvon / ?Penrhyn Castle (3 miles east of Bangor) - ? Vale of Llangollen
Fri - Powis Castle (east central)
National Eisteddfod - Aberystwyth (mid-west coast) - August 1-8

End with boat trip down River Avon - back to London

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(Llangollen International Music - July)

Castell Coch castle - 5 miles north of Cardiff (same architect [as Powis Castle?])

Wiltshire: Stonehenge, Woodhenge, Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow + White Horses
+ Salibury with Mottisfont Abbey gardens
Stourhead garden (northwest of Shaftsbury)
Somerset: Glastonbury
Tautnon: Hestercombe House garden - Jekyll & Lutyen
Barrington Court - Jekyll & Lutyens
Tintinhull - influenced by Jekyll, Hidcote

Kent gardens: Scotney Castle gardens, Great Comp gardens
+ Great Dixter & William Morris house? (Bexley)
Sussex: Sissinghurst gardens

Dorset (south): Plush + Exbury Gardens

* Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley ("south of London")

DEVON:
(Sidmouth international folk festival ("first week August")
Exmoor National Park
Dartmoor National Park
(Torquay)

Cornwall: St. Nectan's Glen

Get more info on:
Other wildfowl trust areas!!!
Other folks festivals?
Morris dancers?
Museums with art nouveau furniture
Original co-op?