A Balanced Programme:

• Garden
• House (NT, English Heritage, CADW)
• Technical
• City visit
• Wildlife
• Indoors for February/March
• Christmas
• Ideally, don’t have visits that are less than 2 months apart.
• As new members join we can repeat successful visits from previous years.

Try something different each year

Cities

• Winchester (Christmas 2024)
• Exeter
• Bath (2022/2026)
• Stratford on Avon (2022/2025)
• Cardiff (Christmas 2024)
• London – lots of possibilities
• Bristol
• Lynton and Lynmouth
• Lacock Abbey Village and Fox Talbot Museum
• Alton Hampshire: Gilbert White’s House and Jane Austen’s Cottage both about £13. Double visit or an either or.
• Birmingham. Jewellery quarter but would need to be combined with a visit to the canal basin to make a day.  Jewellery Quarter and museum, Police Museum (Peaky Blinder history etc.), maybe Cadburys
• Avebury

Houses or Castles – may need something else in addition

Look in NT and English Heritage for possibilities

• Waddesdon Manor, Bucks.
• Longleat
• Woburn Abbey (2 hours 45) particularly the Christmas.
• Blenheim
• Stourhead NT (Christmas show is not as good as Westonbirt)
• Marwell Zoo
• Snowshill Manor NT (£14, 1 hr 30 mins) +  Broadway (or Moreton)
• Sudeley Castle (£22) + Moreton or Stow or Broadway
• Chedworth Roman Villa near Cheltenham. £13.
• Killerton House (NT) near Exeter. (£15) 1 hour 45 mins. Accessibility issues?
• Montacute House NT Near Yeovil, Wolf House Filming. About 1 hour 45 mons, £13. Only Ground floor open for 2025. Look again for 2026?
• Kenilworth Castle. English Heritage. £12. 2 hours.
• Strawberry House Twickenham and Sion House/Park (2hr 30 mins)
• Margam Park and House
• Powis Castle NT Welshpool. 2hrs 34min  95 miles, £15 – too far?
• Castle Drogo (NT). Near Exeter £15. 2 hours.
• Hughendon Manor, Bucks. Where Disraeli lived. A bit small 
• Bowood House at rhododendron time
• Kelmscott Manor the home of William Morris
• Mapperton House and Gardens, Beaminster, Dorset. 2 hours. £19.50, guided tours about 1 hour.
• Arlington Court NT 2 hours 15. £15
• Knightsayes NT £15 Tiverton, 1hr 45. Mainly garden and parkland?
• Berrington Hall

Gardens, Flower Show etc

• Hampton Court flower show
• Hidcote Gardens (NT), 1hr 30 mins Groups £18 plus Bourton or Moreton
• Aberglasney
• RHS Wisley
• RHS Gardens Rosemoor – Torrington. 2 hour 30. £16.
• Rococo Gardens near Painswick (snowdrops)
• Batsford Arboretum and Falconry Centre in Moreton in the Marsh.
• Sezincote (2022)
• Bowwood House and Gardens
• Malvern Spring Show
• RHS Flower Show

Indoor Visits

• Royal Mint (2018?)
• Concorde (2018?)
• British Motor Museum (2024)
• Bristol Hippodrome tour plus something else in Bristol. Harbour and Museums.
• Tank Museum. 2 hours 30. £19.55
• Morgan motor factory 1hr 20 minutes. Tours 2 hours, £32.50 (Group less?)
• Haynes Motor Museum or Beaulieu?
• Houses of Parliament. £20 audio tour. August
• Helicopter Museum Weston Super Mare 

Miscellaneous

• Milestones Museum, Basingstoke. 1hr 34min 
• Another holiday like trip to France and Belgium.
• Badminton Horse Trials on the Thursday or Friday (dressage days). Walking in grounds, 200 trade stands and eateries. Free entry to watch dressage. 
• Slimbridge
• St. Fagans
• Big Pit

Return Visits. We have lots of new members

• Highclere (2019)
• Blenheim Palace (2019)
• Tyntesfield (2019) £18
• Warwick Castle (2018)
• Hampton Court (2020.)
• Kew repeat in 2027/28
• Stourhead NT. Repeat in 2027/28
• Westonbirt Arboretum. Christmas lights. 2025. Need something else as well.
• Oxford in 2027/28 (2024)
• Bletchley and/or National Museum of Computing which is next door. (2023)
• Hay – perhaps in evening (2024)
• Stratford on Avon

May 2026