The DOTM on Sunday 25th August gives you the chance of a two+ hour drive to have lunch and then spend the afternoon at this Jacobean-style house near Cambridge with gardens and a working watermill.
If you would like to be involved, please let me know via this thread, and also send me an email (mark.grimwood1@btinternet.com) to which I can reply with more detailed information as we approach the date. If you would like me to see if we can arrange breakfast at the Sharnbrook Hotel before the drive, please let me know.
Highlights:
Mark
If you would like to be involved, please let me know via this thread, and also send me an email (mark.grimwood1@btinternet.com) to which I can reply with more detailed information as we approach the date. If you would like me to see if we can arrange breakfast at the Sharnbrook Hotel before the drive, please let me know.
Highlights:
- Follow a suggested route, mostly on rolling B roads via lovely Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire villages;
- Coffee stop at a country pub;
- Lunch and spend the afternoon at Anglesey Abbey; see the rich collections of furniture, silver, paintings, porcelain, tapestries and statuary;
- Visit the 100-acre garden which blends formal and more naturalistic landscape styles;
- Marvel at the fully restored waterwheel at the Mill that is now fully operational and producing fresh flour once again.
- Enjoy retail therapy at the on-site nursery and gift shop;
- Return journey to your own schedule.
- Depart 9.45am from the Sharnbrook Hotel;
- Optional breakfast from 8.30am, subject to demand;
- Suggested route takes in Kimbolton and 21 miles of the B660 in a semi-circular route through many villages;
- Coffee stop/ comfort break around 11.00am at a country pub;
- Arrive at Anglesey Abbey (CB25 9EJ) around 12.45pm; entry free for National Trust members; otherwise £17.40 (gift aid), £15.80 (standard) fee per non-member;
- Lunch / refreshments for purchase at time to suit you (or bring a picnic);
- House open until 5.00pm, gardens 5.30pm, Mill 3.30pm.
Mark
