Croome Court Landscape Park
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Croome Court in worcestershire England. The grounds.
Places to see in ( Yorkshire - UK ) Cusworth Hall
Places to see in ( Yorkshire - UK ) Cusworth Hall
Cusworth Hall is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in Cusworth, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the north of England. Set in the landscaped parklands of Cusworth Park, Cusworth Hall is a good example of a Georgian country house. Cusworth Hall is now a country house museum. The house is constructed of ashlar with slate roofs. The rectangular 6 x 5 bay plan main block is linked to 5 x 2 bay service wings.
The Wrightson family had held the lordship of Cusworth since 1669. The present house was built in 1740-1745 by George Platt for William Wrightson to replace a previous house and was further altered in 1749-1753 by James Paine. On William's death in 1760 the property passed to his daughter Isabella, who had married John Battie, who took the additional name of Wrightson in 1766. He employed the landscape designer Richard Woods to remodel the park. Woods was one of a group of respected landscape designers working across the country during the 18th century and Cusworth was one of his most important commissions in South Yorkshire, another being at Cannon Hall. Woods created a park of 250 acres with a hanging and a serpentine river consisting of three lakes embellished with decorative features such as the Rock Arch and the Cascade.
Cusworth Estate Cusworth was first mentioned as ‘Cuzeuuorde’ in the domesday survey of 1086 but there has been a settlement here for centuries dating back to the Anglo-Saxon period. Many different families had held the lands and manor but they did not always live at Cusworth.
‘Old Hall’ A large house is first mentioned in 1327. Robert Wrightson bought the lands and manor of Cusworth in 1669 from Sir Christopher Wray. The first surviving map of Cusworth is that of Joseph Dickinson’s 1719 plan which shows the hall and gardens covered only 1 acre with the orchards a further 2 acres. What is most significant at this time was the ‘Parke’ of some 25 acres. The ‘Old Hall’ was next to the walled gardens in the centre of Cusworth village. In 1726 the ‘Old Hall’ was expanded including altering the gardens between 1726-1735. This expanded the kitchen garden into the size and form we know today with the Bowling Green and Pavilion.
In the period 1740-1745 William Wrightson employed George Platt, a mason architect from Rotherham, to build a new hall – the current Cusworth Hall – high on a scarp slope on the Magnesian Limestone removing the Hall, and the family, from the village of Cusworth. The ‘Old Hall’ was largely demolished in the process, many components from the old building re-used in the new.
Cusworth Hall Cusworth Hall itself and its outbuildings are at the centre of the park enjoying ‘prospect’ over the town of Doncaster. The Grade I-listed eighteenth century hall was designed by George Platt in the Palladian style. Cusworth Hall is handsome, well proportioned, with wings consisting of a stable block and great kitchen. Later additions by James Paine include a chapel and library. It has decorative outbuildings including a Brew House, Stable Block and Lodge. In addition it has a decorative garden called Lady Isabella’s Garden on the west side adjacent to the chapel. On its eastern flank the stable block and gardeners' bothy. Attached to the bothy is a decorative iron enclosure known as the Peacock Pen.
Cusworth Park Cusworth Park is an historic designed landscape with a Grade II listing in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens. It was designed and created by the nationally known landscape architect Richard Woods to ‘improve’ the park in the style made famous by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown now termed ‘The English Landscape Park’. Work started in 1761 laying out the ‘grounds and the serpentine river’.
( Yorkshire - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Yorkshire . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Yorkshire - UK
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Protect Tiddesley Wood
Saturday 26th October 2019 provided us with the video evidence that the #SWDP preferred option to allow a development of 450 houses to be built on #Orchard Farm, situated off the treacherous #A4104 road outside #Pershore, will increase flooding! Even if they install these marvellous drains, the water will still pour from the hills of Tiddesley Wood itself onto the treacherous road.
This land has been constantly refused planning permission on for decades, even to just replace the bungalow built in 1979 with agricultural ties with one replacement dwelling. Now the Powers that Be are considering building this estate which is 1.3 miles away from the Town Centre and claim it will be an “eco village”!!
Join us in sending the message to #WychavonDistrictCouncil that we will NOT accept any building bordering our 6000 year old ancient #TiddesleyWood and that we will fight to protect both the woodland and its wildlife with vigour!
The #SWDP consultation begins online on Monday 4th November 2019 with the Pershore exhibition taking place on Wednesday 13th November 2-8pm in the Town Hall. Pershore Town Council are also holding a town meeting on Tuesday 19th November at 6.30pm in Pershore Library to hear residents views on the SWDP proposals.
Please help us protect Tiddesley Wood, the wildlife and Pershore itself from more severe flooding ????????????
A visit to Packwood's garden in high summer
Join Mick Evans, our Head Gardener, as he takes us on a tour of the beautiful, summer borders at Packwood House.
Bad landing at Defford
Apologies if this brings on a severe attack of the cringes - but it was actually a reasonably smooth landing on a rough surface. The camera was loose and became detached on landing - held on by a security lanyard.
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Madresfield Early Years Centre
Places to see in ( Glastonbury - UK )
Places to see in ( Glastonbury - UK )
Glastonbury is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, 23 miles south of Bristol. The town of Glastonbury is in the Mendip district. Glastonbury is less than 1 mile (2 km) across the River Brue from Street, which is now larger than Glastonbury.
Evidence from timber trackways such as the Sweet Track show that the town has been inhabited since Neolithic times. Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, close to the old course of the River Brue and Sharpham Park approximately 2 miles (3 km) west of Glastonbury, that dates back to the Bronze Age. Centwine was the first Saxon patron of Glastonbury Abbey, which dominated the town for the next 700 years. One of the most important abbeys in England, it was the site of Edmund Ironside's coronation as King of England in 1016. Many of the oldest surviving buildings in the town, including the Tribunal, George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn and the Somerset Rural Life Museum, which is based in an old tithe barn, are associated with the abbey. The Church of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century.
The town became a centre for commerce, which led to the construction of the market cross, Glastonbury Canal and the Glastonbury and Street railway station, the largest station on the original Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The Brue Valley Living Landscape is a conservation project managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust and nearby is the Ham Wall National Nature Reserve.
Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community which attracts people with New Age and Neopagan beliefs, and is notable for myths and legends often related to Glastonbury Tor, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and King Arthur. Joseph is said to have arrived in Glastonbury and stuck his staff into the ground, when it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn. The presence of a landscape zodiac around the town has been suggested but no evidence has been discovered. The Glastonbury Festival, held in the nearby village of Pilton, takes its name from the town.
The Tribunal was a medieval merchant's house, used as the Abbey courthouse and, during the Monmouth Rebellion trials, by Judge Jeffreys. The octagonal Market Cross was built in 1846 by Benjamin Ferrey. The George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn was built in the late 15th century to accommodate visitors to Glastonbury Abbey.
The Somerset Rural Life Museum is a museum of the social and agricultural history of Somerset, housed in buildings surrounding a 14th-century barn once belonging to Glastonbury Abbey. The Chalice Well is a holy well at the foot of the Tor, covered by a wooden well-cover with wrought-iron decoration made in 1919.
Just a short distance from the Chalice Well site, across a road known as Well House Lane, can be found the White Spring, where a temple has been created in the 21st century. The building now used as the White Spring Temple was originally a Victorian-built well house, erected by the local water board in 1872.
The Glastonbury Canal ran just over 14 miles (23 km) through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge where it entered the Bristol Channel in the early 19th century. The nearest railway station is at Castle Cary but there is no direct bus route linking it to Glastonbury. There are convenient bus connections between Glastonbury and the railway stations at Bristol Temple Meads (over an hour travelling time) and at Taunton. The main road in the town is the A39 which passes through Glastonbury from Wells connecting the town with Street and the M5 motorway.
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River Severn. Worcestershire Holidays
The River Severn, the longest river in England, meanders its way through the Worcestershire lush green landscape. Pictureque views provide sightseeing delights for tourists. The River Severn joins up with the canal network In Stourport-on-Severn making Worcestershire the perfect destination for having a narrowboat trip or boating holidays. River activities include fishing (permit required), boating, sailing and canoeing together with walking and cycling.
defford trail.avi
This is just a brief look at some of the aicraft that are featured in this DVD about Worcestershire's most famous air day. The full film is available on DVD.
There is a second film about Defford Air Day MKII with more footage of other vintage aircrafts. This is also available on DVD. Visit
Vintage and modern aircraft up close and in flight. Displays by model aircraft enthusiasts. Flypast by American World war 2 Mustang. Aerial views of Worcestershire's beautiful scenery including Bredon Hill and the River Avon taken from planes, helicopters and microlites. The DVD is available from Red Dog Media on 01497 842998
Defford seaside
sinead, kim and me looking for the seaside at DEFFORDville!! :D lol
Downton Abbey Highclere Castle - DJI Mavic 2 Pro
Highclere Castle is a country house in the Jacobethan style by the architect Charles Barry, with a park designed by Capability Brown. The 5,000-acre (2,000 ha) estate is in Hampshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Newbury, Berkshire. It is the country seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, a branch of the Anglo-Welsh Herbert family.
Highclere Castle was a filming location for the British comedy series Jeeves and Wooster, which starred comedians Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. It was also used as the main filming location for the award-winning period drama Downton Abbey. The great hall, dining room, library, music room, drawing room, saloon and several of the bedrooms located inside the building were also used for filming.
The castle, Egyptian exhibition and gardens are open to the public during the summer months and at other times during the rest of the year. The castle also holds special ticketed events throughout the year.
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St Faiths, BACTON, Herefordshire
1. 1907 John Warner & Sons
2. 1907 John Warner & Sons
3. 1710 Abraham Rudhall I
4. 1907 John Warner & Sons
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A beautiful west Herefordshire village, containing a church with chickens wandering around the churchyard, and 4 bells.
In the church is a large monument to Blanch Parry, a faithful servant of Queen Elizabeth I. At one point the bell installation was derelict and the tower was unsafe, so in 1907 the tower was restored, a new frame installed and a reconfigured ring of four installed in it. There are pits in the frame for two heavier bells to create a true ring of six.
For a picture of the monument to Elizabeth I's servant
Andy's National Trust Travel Blogs: Charlecote House and Park, Warwickshire
There are 500+ places of interest in the UK under the National Trust banner and I will be attempting to visit as many as I can, reporting as I do all the important stuff relative to accessibility.
Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.
The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.
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A bird's eye view of the Calke estate
A flight though the open park land, gardens, stables and stately home of Calke Abbey
Set in the English Midlands, Calke Abbey is a great place for a family day out.
Produced by Ycopter
Defford Air Day 2014....
....a cool fun day out.
Photos here..
An English Landscape
A collection of time-lapse sequences taken during my recent hike of the Pennine Way & Coast to Coast trails in England.
The music is a song called 'See you again' by Rory Sherman. Details of Rory can be found here
Please support this talented English composer.
The landmark, shooting location and relevant trail of the time-lapse sequences are as follows (in time order),
1. Peel Crags (Hadrian's Wall, PW)
2. Wensleydale (Bainbridge Ings campsite, PW)
3. Wensleydale (Bainbridge Ings campsite, PW)
4. Balderdale (Cotherstone Moor, PW)
5. Swaledale (Kisdon, above Muker village, PW)
6. Ullswater (Side Farm campsite, Patterdale, C2C)
7. Cleveland HIlls Sunset(Lord Stone's Country Park, C2C)
8. Helvellyn range (from St Sunday Crag, C2C)
9. Cross Fell & Eden Valley (from Cross Fell, PW)
10. High Street (from Kidsty Pike, C2C)
11. High Cup Nick & Eden Valley (High Cup Nick Plain, PW)
12. Green Fell sunset (from Greg's Hut, PW)
The sequences have been created using LRTimelapse 3.4 and Lightroom 5.6 and final video produced with Power Director 12.
Snow on Roads in Bromsgrove 08.20hrs 18th Jan 2013
Snow on Roads in Bromsgrove 08.20hrs 18th Jan 2013
Not too bad so far.... this was a short journey from Stoke Prior back into Bromsgrove this morning.
Bridge View Hampton-in-Arden Railway Station - Solihull
Random Video. Testing a new camera.. Location: Hampton in Arden Train Station, Solihull. United Kingdom. Postcode: B92 0BL.
Rollo's RAF Days (Part 2 of 2)
During WWII, Rollo Mitchell flew 52 sorties in a Lancaster bomber.
In 1998, Rollo's two sons interviewed him about his RAF days during the Second World War. A time when he was accidentally shot, his plane was nearly blown out of the sky and he received a medal from the King.
Rollo never talked about the war until this interview. This is his belated story.