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Excursions Since 1996 1996 Excursions since 1996 1996. Assembly Rooms, Worcester. Buscot Park, & Inglesham Church. Madresfield Court. Hereford Cathedral. London Walkabout (Wren churches, & Guildhall).. Caerwent & Raglan Castle. Bransford Chapel. Doughton Manor, Elkstone church. Muck Wenlock, Priory & private monastic buildings. 1997. St. Swithin’s church, Worcester. London: Globe Theatre, & Southwark Cathedral. Besford Court & church. St. Albans, Cathedral & Roman museum. Winslow Hall (Bucks) with Stewkeley Church & Wing church. St. Michael’s, Tenbury: College & church. Hampton Court (house). Weobley, & Pembridge. Abergavenny church, & Abbey Dore. Richard’s Castle (2 churches) and Adcote House. 1998. Stoke-on-Trent Potteries Museum: and Etruria Mill, & Cheadle R.C. church. Rugby School & Stamford Court & church. Droitwich Town. Holt Castle. Compton Wynyates (church & house), Burton Dassett church. Birtsmorton Court & church. West Wycombe; caves & church & West Wycombe Park. Llanthony Priory, and Monmouth (excavations). Croome Court (inside derelict house). London: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, &Westminster Cathedral. 1999. Worcester: The Old Palace. Worcester Cathedral Library. Northampton (3 churches) and Cottesbrooke Hou~e. Chepstow (castle & church) & Lydney Park. Little Malvern Court, and church. Worcester: Greyfriars 5Oth anniv. Supper. Droitwich, Salt Industry tour. Malvem, Midsummer Hill - archaeology. Upton-on-Severn — town tour. Lyddington House, & Uppingham School. Haughmond Abbey, & Sunnycroft House. White House, Suckley. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum (plaster cast gallery), New College and Iffley Church 2000. Asperton: thatched house, and church. Strensharn church and Hill Croome church. Kenilworth Abbey, Church & Castle: Stoneleigh Village and church. Hartlebury Castle, and County Museum. Rodmarton House, Cirencester, North Cerney church. The Nash, Kempsey. Wroxeter Roman city, church, & Atcham church and bridge. Dorchester Abbey & fort, & Bagpuise House Alcester, town walk. Lincoln Cathedral, weekend visit, including Southwell Minster & Gainsborough Old Hall. 2001. Wigmore Abbey & Shobdon church. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum etc. & Yarnton church. Wroxton, Banbury, & Framlingham Hall. Tewkesbury Abbey & town. Newland church & Beauchamp community. Pershore Town. Strawberry Hill, Middx, and Ewelme church & almshouses. Wye valley Autumn Tour & lunch. 2002. Croome church & Pirton church. Vale Crucis Abbey, and Llangollen (Plas Newydd). Sandham Memorial Chapel & Highclere Castle. Bredon School, & Bushley Church. Feckenham village walkabout. Ludlow town, & Burford church. Wit!ey Court & church. Rothwell church, Brixworth church, & Lamport Hall 2003. Romsley & Hagley churches. London; S. Paul’s Cathedral. Evesham Abbey & Evesham Manor. Ditchley Park, and North Leigh Church. Castle Combe, Bradford-on-Avon, & Lacock Abbey. Bewdley town walkabout. Stained glass workshop, and Hay-on-Wye. Nantwich church & town, and Little Moreton Hall. Chastleton House and Minster Lovell. 2004. Great Malvern, town walkabout. Rycote Chapel, and Thame Town, also Waterperry. Crowle, Churchill. & Peopleton churches. Presteigne (Judges’ Lodgings) etc, and Old Radnor church. Avoncrofi Museum (& Guesten hall roof). Coventry: churches, old cathedral, etc. Excursions undertaken by Brian Ferris from 1996 to 2004 2005 Elgar’s Herefordshire – Mordiford, Plas Gwyn and Hereford, Weobley, Eaton Bishop, and Weobley with Elgar Society Stourport town walk Barns of the Lower Seven Valley – Leigh Court, Ashleworth, Frocester and Bredon Kinlet Church and Morville Hall and Church Dormston and Abbots Morton Churches Leasowes and Hewell Grange Landscape Gardens Bristol – Georgian and Red Houses, Theatre Royal, Queen Sq, and St Mary Redcliffe 2006 John Corbett’s Droitwich district, with Victorian Society Tenbury Wells town walk Gloucester – Blackfriars, Theatre Royal, St Mary Redcliffe Lost Worcestershire: King’s Norton, Old Yardley and Blakesley Hall Bayton, Mamble and Knighton Churches Pembridge, Offa’s Dyke and OD Centre Stanbrook Abbey Wilden Church and Old Swinford Hospital 2007 Ombersley Church, Hall and Village Upton town walk Acton Beauchamp Church and Bromyard Local History Centre and Church Lost Worcestershire: Blockley Church, Mill and Village Notrthampton - Rennie Mackintosh at Derngate, Earl’s Barton church and Wellingborough - Comper church Ripple and Earl’s Croome Churches Abingdon town and churches Society Library at University of Worcester Isle of Wight - 5 day tour based at Shanklin 2008 St Swithin’s Worcester Radnorshire: Hindwell and Monaughty North Worcester and The Tything walk Herefordshire Romanesque – Castle Frome, Stretton Sugwas, Eardisley, Brinsop - and Weobley Burford and Sezincote Berkeley Castle and Jenner Museum Society Library at University of Worcester Lost Worcestershire: Dudley Castle (and zoo) and town Old Swinford and Pedmore churches Harvington Hall + supper Fairford – church and town Isles of Scilly – 5 day tour 2009 St Andrew’s and All Saints Churches, Worcester Soho House and Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham Droitwich town walk Dean Heritage Centre and Lydney Park Worcester Cathedral – upper reaches Kenilworth Castle, including Elizabethan Garden and Warwick – Lord Leycester Hospital and St Mary’s Church Coughton Court + supper Wroxeter and Tong Breedon on the Hill and Repton Wickhamford and Badsey Churches Woodchester Mansion Northumbria – 6 day tour including Hadrian’s Wall, the world of Bede and Lindisfarne 2012 Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Bishop's Palace Worcester Feckenham Arts and Crafts in Bromsgrove Pershore Abbey supper Ludlow Wychbold and Elmbridge Churches Birtsmorton Kentchurch Court Welsh Spas 2013 Worcester Cathedral Romanesque Hagley Park Walk Tardebigge and Alvechurch Hellens Chaddesley Corbett 19th Century Warwickshire Churches Silchester Roman Town Stoke Orchard and Oxenton Churches 2014 Great Houses of Malvern Coventry's Cathedrals Border Castles – Hopton, Clun and Brampton Bryan Stonor Park, Ewelme and Dorchester Abbey The Lost Town of Trellech Cofton Hackett and Frankley Churches Yardley and Solihull 2015 Worcester and Birmingham Canal Boughton House Warwickshire Georgian Churches Greyfriars Caerwent Battle of Evesham Tedstone Delamere and Whitbourne Churches 2016 Sheldon Tapestry Map of Worcestershire in Oxford Perrycroft, Malvern Evening meal at Hanbury Hall Richard III Tim Bridges' Churches Evening Chedworth Roman Villa and Corinium Museum Honington Hall.
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