“I am excessively fond of a cottage..." - Robert Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility
Breakfast at Green Haven guesthouse
Our hostess from China was lovely. She offered traditional English breakfast, but we ordered yoghurt and eggs and toast.
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| Signing the guestbook in the entryway |
Towns to drive through:
Drive 5 Minutes
Chipping Campden
Drive 20 minutes
Stanton
Drive 15 minutes
Sudeley Castle – (couldn’t see without paying and joking up to it)
Drive 20 minutes
Stow-on-theWold
Drive 10 minutes
Upper Slaughter
Drive minutes
Lower Slaughter
Drive 5 minutes
Bourton-on-the-Water
By the time we got here, we were ready to skip the next and move on. So we’ll never know what we missed in Bibury…
Drive 35 minutes
12:00 Highgrove House - Drive by
This was disappointing as we never did find the entrance or get a view of the house. Google maps failed us.
Drive 25 minutes
Castle Combe
This is probably my favorite of the towns we saw. Soooo cute!
The drive through many of these was honestly stressful and often ridiculous. There are so many farm lanes lined by 15-foot-tall hedges on either side of the road, with the road being wide enough only for one car. We had to stop and back up or wait for the oncoming car to back up to a slightly wider spot where we could barrrrrrely pass each other.
COTSWOLD PICTURES: I unfortunately didn't keep track of what was where.
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| More wooden cutlery at a petrol station |
"Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner’s shop just over the way." - Pride and Prejudice
Drive 30 Minutes
Drive through Lacock (LAY-kok)
The town of "Meryton" where Uncle and Aunt Philips lived, as well as Sir and Lady Lucas and their daughter, Charlotte (the Bennett sisters' cousin) in the 1995 Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice movie.
Lacock Abbey is where flashback scenes of the Colin Firth Darcy and Mr. Wicombe were filmed.
Lunch in Lacock at The Red Lion (Pub)
The Red Lion - Exterior location for Meryton Assembly Rooms where Darcy and Elizabeth met at a country ball in the 1995 Colin Firth Pride & Prejudice.
Make Reservation Tel: 01249 730456
Our lunch was delish at The Red Lion
The whole town looks movie-ready. All you have to do is move the cars, throw down some dirt on the paved road, and voila! It looks like you went back in time a couple hundred years at least.
(Shows The Red Lion at the very end)
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| Smoked salmon salad, zucchini soup |
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| Backyard seating at The Red Lion |
We took a little walk to St. Anne’s church and looked around. We were so impressed by all the needlework on the prayer pillows. Mom played the piano.
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| St. Anne's |
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| Street near St. Anne's church |
Mom bought me a scone with clotted cream and jam at a bakery on our walk back to the car.
Drive 30 minutes to Bath
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| We just had to pull over and get this picture. We passed so many hilly fields just like this. |
95 Sydney Place
Sir Walter Elliott’s house where Anne stared out the curtained windows in Persuasion
(We were driving on a busy road and couldn't get a picture)
Drive 5 minutes
Park on Milsom street and walk
14 Old Bond Street, Jigsaw store
The tea room where Anne saw Captain Wentworth walking by in the rain in Persuasion
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| Persuasion tea room |
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| This sweetest store owner around the corner let us use her loo. I wanted a picture of her with her beautiful store window. |
Drive 3 minutes
Royal Crescent
Mentioned in the Persuasion book and used in filming in 2007 Persuasion
Royal Hotel Bath– Check in
Teresa park at Manvers car park
Tel: 44 01225 463134
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| Takes me back to my mission days... |
Mom's Journal Entry
Tuesday, Sept. 19th
After our stay at Green Haven Guesthouse, (horrible mattress, smallest possible room, but very clean - scrambled egg breakfast made by our Chinese hostess & husband), Teresa maneuvered our car out of the tiny parking space and we were on our way.
We had cloudy, rainy and windy weather (typical England)and drove through the Cotswolds very old quant English towns. We drove through Chipping Campden, Stanton, Stow-on-the-Wold, Upper Slaughter, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water (cute bridges) and Highgrove House and Castle Combe. Then to Lacock (Meryton in P&P) We ate salmon (salad - me), and zucchini soup (T) at the RED LION and walked to St. Anne's Church. We went inside and I played "We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet" on the tinny piano. The church was built in the early 1400s and belongs to The Church of England. We bought a clotted cream scone at a cute bakery - yum!
When we arrived in Bath, we visited the Royal Crescent and the tea shop (Persuasion spots). We were surprised to see rows of houses on a city hill. I was amazed at how Teresa could drive everywhere without getting lost Some roads were so narrow that we had to back up into a driveway or onto a sidewalk to let the oncoming car pass. We hug the side of the road a lot to not hit oncoming cars and trucks and buses.
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| Drive in Bath |
