Sharon and I got to Nottingham on Wednesday. We are staying in another Victorian home B&B and our hosts are Mark and Marie. They have more rooms to rent, but it is just Sharon, me and one other person, whom we haven't seen. They have a beautiful back yard with a huge garden, chicken coop and bee hives. We have fresh eggs and honey every morning for breakfast!
On our way to Nottingham, we went to Lichfield, Staffordshire, England which is about 16 miles north of Birmingham. It is well known for it's cathedral. It was so beautiful! It is the only medieval cathedral with three spires and was built in 700 AD. It houses the Lichfield Gospels of Matthew, Mark and part of Luke in the original Latin and has been dated back to 730.
We also stopped at Tutbury Castle which is a largely ruined medieval castle at Tutbury, Staffordshire. People who have stayed in the castle include Eleanor of Aquitaine and Mary, Queen of Scots, who was a prisoner here.
Tutbury Castle ruins
Thursday, we went to Burghley House in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It is a grand 16th century country house and was built for Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Elizabeth I from 1558-1587. It was subsequently the residence of his descendants, the earls and since 1801, marquesses of Exeter. One of the descendants, David "Burghley" Cecil, the 6th marquess was the Olympic gold-medal winning hurdler and runner featured in "Chariots of Fire". It is now managed by his granddaughter Miranda Rock.
Burghley House
Burghley House was featured as 'Rosings Park', home of Lady Catherine DeBurgh in 2005 version of "Pride and Prejudice", 2006 "The DaVinci Code", 1994 Masterpiece Theatre, "Middlemarch" and 2007 "Elizabeth, the Golden Age".
Blue Silk Room
Heaven Room
Left: Bedroom for Queen Victoria Right: Stairs and toilet for Queen Victoria
L: Guest Bedroom R: Hell Staircase
We stopped where Sir Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire.
Sir Isaac Newton birthplace
We went to see Belton House which is a country house in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. For three hundred years, Belton House was the seat of the Brownlow and Cust family who built it in 1685. Now it is part of the National Trust of England.
Belton House
Belton House was also featured in many films.....2006 mini-series "Jane Eyre", and 'Rosings Park' in the 1995 BBC mini-series, "Pride and Prejudice". Below is a picture taken from the film when 'the terrified Sir William and Maria Lucas, sanguine Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas Collins and a fretfully boastful Mr. Collins' approach the house.
Scene from 1995 Pride and Prejudice
We tried to drive up to a place called Belvoir Castle, but it was closed for the day. I got a picture from the highway leading up to the castle. It
is a stately home in the English county of Leicestershire overlooking the Vale of Belvoir. It was a royal manor until 1257 and then became a castle when it was inherited by George Manners. His son was created the Earl of Rutland in 1525 and has been the home of the Manners family for five hundred years, and the seat of the Dukes of Rutland for over three centuries. A corner of the castle is still used as the family home of the Manners family and remains the seat of the Dukes of Rutland, most of whom are buried in the grounds of the mausoleum.
Belvoir Castle
Wiki pic of Belvoir Castle
Belvoir Castle has been used as a location for several films and television programs: "Little Lord Fauntleroy" starring Sir Alex Guinnes; "The Da Vinci Code" where it was used to portray Castel Gandolfo; and "The Young Victoria" (2008)
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