Rolling hills, wide open spaces and biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest rising up above the Stroud Valleys and Severn estuary. Minchinhampton Common is a large (82.7-hectare – 451-acre) area of grassland on the slopes and hilltop. Rodborough Common, 116.0-hectare (287-acre), is just to the North of Minchinhampton Common and has some great views over the Stroud and the Severn Vale. Read more…
Little Fleece Bookshop, a traditional 17th-century building Cotswold house (originally part of a former inn) in the beautiful Cotswold village of Painswick. Read more…
All that survives of Kingswood Abbey today is the 16th-century Abbey gatehouse. The abbey was founded in the year 1169 by William of Berkeley and colonised from the Cistercian house at Tintern. Read more…
Nympsfield Long Barrow is the remains of a Neolithic burial site or barrow. It lies at the edge of a woods, and is now the location of a picnic site. Nympsfield is one of the earliest examples of a barrow with separate chambers, constructed around 2800 BCE. Read more…
Woodchester Park, a secluded wooded valley with a ‘lost garden’. Chain of five lakes thread through this delightful 18th and 19th-century landscape park with waymarked trails. Read more…
Painswick Rococo Gardens were designed in the mid-1700s by Benjamin Hyett after he purchased the house in the 1730s. Rococo describes a period of art fashionable in Europe in the 1700s, identifiable particularly in furniture and architecture and the gardens at Painswick just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire are one of the only surviving examples open to the public. The gardens Read more…
The Regal is a Wetherspoon pub in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm. Read more…
Dominican ‘black friars’ friary, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and the fine scissor-braced dormitory roof. Read more…
The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum houses an internationally significant museum collection of exceptional quality and variety, changing displays of our Designated Arts and Crafts Movement collection and fine art collections. The museum is home to The Open Archive, which houses our fascinating archives relating to Antarctic explorer Edward A. Wilson, Cheltenham’s history and the Emery Walker Library. Read more…
Uley Long Barrow, also known as “Hetty Pegler’s Tump”, is a Neolithic burial mound. Although typically described as a long barrow, the mound is actually a transected gallery grave. It is about 180ft (55m) in length and contains a stone built central passage with two chambers on either side and another at the end. The earthen mound is surrounded by Read more…
Westbury Court Garden was created between 1696 and 1705, and is the only restored Dutch style water garden in the country. A visit will include exploring the canals, fine hedges and working 17th-century vegetable plots and discover many old varieties of fruit trees. Read more…
