WEST COAST

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PARTINGTON TO DEVIZES

Pass through STRATFORD UPON AVON is 2 hours south of Partington
Visit Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Shakespeares Birthplace (http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soabpt.htm)
Go to the Teddy Bear Museum (http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soateddy.htm)
Go boating on the Avon (http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/static_1152.htm)
Visit Europe's largest butterfly farm (http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soabtfly.htm)

Pass through COTSWOLDS
From Stratford-upon-Avon take the Romantic Road (2 hours) (http://www.the-cotswolds.org/top/english/seeanddo/romanticroad/index.html) through Broadway and Winchcombe to Cheltenham, then Painswick and Bisley to Cirencester.

Pass through CIRENCESTER
Home of the Agricultural College (http://www.royagcol.ac.uk/?_id=1603)
Visit the museum to see how Romans lived (http://www.cirencester.co.uk/coriniummuseum/)

Pass through MALMESBURY (20 mins from Cirencester)
See really old hand written script at Malmesbury Abbey (http://www.malmesburyabbey.com/)
Visit Peter and Marilyn in Little Somerford (8 mins from Malmesbury)

DEVIZES (40 mins from Malmesbury)
Visit Mr & Mrs Royston. Let them know beforehand and they can book a room in the Home for you.

While you are there, visit SALISBURY (45 mins from Devizes) (http://www.visitsalisbury.com/sectionlist.asp?sectionid=2&metatitle=Places%20to%20Visit)
Visit Stonehenge (20 mins north of Salisbury, close to Amesbury)
See the world's best preserved Magna Carta (AD 1215) and Europe’s oldest working clock (AD 1386) at Salisbury Cathedral
The Wardrobe Military Museum and learn about the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment
Mompesson House, Queen Anne architecture built in 1701 and used for the film Sense and Sensibility
Wilton House (8 mins west) built by Inigo Jones with family portraits by Van Dyck
Iron Age hill fort of Old Sarum with fine views of the surrounding countryside (6 mins north of Salisbury)
Come back through Westbury and see the White Horse (45 mins north west of Salisbury)


DEVIZES TO KINGSKERSWELL

Stop in at BATH (40 mins)
See the Roman Baths (http://visitbath.co.uk/site/things_to_do/p_25681)
Visit the Pump Room for lunch (http://visitbath.co.uk/site/things-to-do/itinerary-ideas/bath-in-4-hours)
The Jane Austen Centre (http://www.janeausten.co.uk/)
Glastonbury Abbey (http://www.glastonburyabbey.com/) founded by Joseph of Arimathea, and the place where King Arthur is supposed to be buried

KINGSKERWELL
Visit Julie and Mitch
Visit Dartmoor National Park (http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/visiting.html)
Miniature Pony Centre & Animal Farm (http://www.dartmoor.co.uk/atDetails.asp?id=172)
Powder Mills Pottery (http://www.dartmoor.co.uk/atDetails.asp?id=217)
Brimblecombe's Cider (http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/details.asp?Package=1997)
Buckland Abbey, home of Sir Francis Drake (http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/details.asp?Package=1344)
House of Marbles (http://www.houseofmarbles.com/)

While you are there visit PLYMOUTH (50 mins from Kingskerswell)
Visit the Mayflower (http://www.visitplymouth.info/index.html?_area=attractions&_CMSdetail=9850&_CMSid=279540)

Visit EDEN PROJECT (1 hour from Plymouth)
Visit the Eden Project (Bodelva, Cornwall, PL24 2SG)
Pet Shop Boys are playing Sun, 22-July-07 : 7:30pm at Eden


KINGSKERSWELL TO CHICHESTER

Pass through SOUTHAMPTON (almost 3 hours from Kingskerswell)
Do the The Southampton Titanic Trail, the Waterfront Trail or the Medieval Trail (http://www.visit-southampton.co.uk/site/discover-historic-old-town/itinerary-ideas)

Visit the NEW FOREST, (http://www.thenewforest.co.uk/thedms.asp?dms=11&groupid=2)
- The Studio (1a Lawfords Yard Pound Lane, Burley, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 4EB, http://www.thenewforest.co.uk/thedms.asp?dms=13&venue=3707077)
- Hurst Castle Ferry (28 Park Road, Milford On Sea, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 0QU, http://www.hurst-castle.co.uk)
- National Motor Museum (Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, SO42 7ZN, www.beaulieu.co.uk)
- Maritime Museum (Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, SO42 7XB, www.bucklershard.co.uk)
- New Forest Museum (High Street, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, SO43 7NY, www.newforestmuseum.org.uk)
- Elingtide Mill (Eling Hill, Totton, Southampton, SO40 9HF, www.elingtidemill.org.uk)

CHICHESTER is 45 mins from Southampton
Stay with Gwen M. Can you find out if she has accommodation for you in about the last week of July?
Visit Arundel Castle (http://www.arundelcastle.org/_pages/03_visitor_info.htm) (20 mins east)

Arundel to EARLSFIELD, where I live is one and a half hours.

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Comments

[Heruds in London]

Visit Albert near Bath and Others
Albert just rang me. He has accommodation and would love to see you. Lives in Weston-Super-Mare on the west coast, an hour from Bath. Others live in Merseyside and Newcastle, and Silvia lives in Somerset.