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From Stathern we moved to Missenden. This post covers two days to today. I've always been intrigued by the sight of Missenden Abbey when we used to visit Jacqui and family in Prestwood but could never book there. This time we were lucky and found it delightful. Very
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We visited old Coffee Pot friends Roger and Barbara at Stathern and enjoyed seeing their C18 'cottage' with innumerable rooms (Roger's never counted them beyond the three toilets in odd places) and a real Harry Potter feel about it all! They took us for lunch to
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A neighbour from Harrow, Lesley and husband, John, generously invited us for a couple of days, from where we were able to visit friends at at Stathern and Tollerton. We enjoyed seeing a lot of Olympic events with them on TV. Not only that, but I had misjudged my B
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A good day in the Ashmolean (from 1683!) and Pitt Rivers Museums, plus a streetwalk amongst the colleges. We took Park and Ride from Bicester so the centre of Oxford is almost completely free of cars--just public buses and bicycles of course! Our attention was drawn to the history
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Valerie drove us all there. We were fortunate to have an NT 'buggy' offered to us on arrival near the car park, so arrived at the house 'in State'. Could have done with a 'buggy' for last few outings to NT places. Originally a
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An NT property near Romsey in Hampshire, it dates from Saxon antiquity as a meeting place or 'Moot', based on a natural spring that runs up from the ground to this day. The water runs into the River Test. It became a Priory until the Black Death decimated
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Today did not start well at all. We knew the city had park-an-ride so we searched for one near a mill we wanted to see and found one on Chesil street. I imagined the old park and ride in a field . This was a busy multi storey, difficult
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Leaving Vyne house, we searched for a B and B. Along country lanes we found an inn which thought they had rooms but due to being with an agency they said I'd have to look online in case someone else was booking too. We left and a customer
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Vyne House is a Tudor mansion of ancient origin but refurbished for Henry VIII as a centre for governance, Winchester being the storehouse for Royal treasure at that time (I think). It has been refurbished again but retains Tudor oak carved panelling and other structures. There is also a Roman
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A visit to childhood friend Myra in a very nice retirement village-St Oswalds, near the Cathedral. We spent a lot of time catching up on five years and also explored local streets and pub restaurants. The next day we visited an an ancient crypt in the Cathedral, now a
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We stayed with long-time friend Robert in Rowledge village.We a lunch time drink in garden of a local pub, with Robert and friend Jo then went to a choral concert held inside a magnificent church on a site dating back to medieval times. There were extensive grounds and
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Here we stayed with friend from schooldays and scouts, Clifford and sister Rilla joined us As you can see, Cliff has taken up forging, specialising in kitchen knives and Samurai swords!! He also is a member of Wokingham Art Society for painting and took us to an exhibition there. That