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Discover our countryside The 2020 Members’ Guide to attractions, gardens, houses The countryside and museums charity Properties and Attractions 2020 Counties We’d like to warmly welcome you to CPRE’s Members’ Guide to Avonside ...............................................4 Lincolnshire .................................... 23 Attractions, Gardens, Houses and Museums for 2020. Bedfordshire ......................................4 London .............................................. 24 With attractions of all kinds all over the country, there’s something for everyone in the pages of your Members Guide. We hope you’ll have the Buckinghamshire .............................4 chance to visit and experience many of these special places over the Norfolk .............................................. 25 coming year! Cambridgeshire ................................5 Northamptonshire ...................... 27 New for this year is Eddington Lodge in Cornwall. Set in a stunning dark Cheshire ................................................6 sky location, this is the perfect spot for stargazing, or just to spend time Northumberland ............................28 reconnecting with nature by the rugged North Cornwall coast. Cornwall ................................................7 Oxfordshire ....................................28 Some of our returning attractions include Berkeley Castle, which you Cumbria .................................................9 CPRE is the countryside charity that might also recognise as the filming location for ‘Poldark’ and ‘Johnny Derbyshire .......................................... 11 Rutland .............................................. 30 works for a beautiful and thriving English Strikes Again’. And for those interested in history, we have a How to use the tour of Hammerwood Park - built in 1792 as a Temple to Apollo and Shropshire ......................................... 31 countryside - for everyone’s benefit. Bacchus by Benjamin Latrobe, who was also the architect of the White Devon .................................................... 11 House in Washington D.C. Dorset .................................................. 13 Somerset .......................................... 31 Discount Offer The properties in the guide have agreed to No matter where you decide to go, don’t forget to take your membership The give CPRE members a discounted entry to card and this guide with you, so that you can take advantage of the Durham ................................................ 15 Staffordshire .................................. 32 countryside their property. discounts that are being offered exclusively to CPRE members. charity Essex ....................................................16 Suffolk ..................................................33 • The discount agreed is for one discount per If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch us. You membership card (physical card only). Gloucestershire ..............................16 5-11 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ. can call our Supporter Care Team on 020 7981 2870 or email us at Surrey ...................................................33 • The number of members in a household Tel: 020 7981 2870 [email protected]. We’re always keen to hear feedback about Hampshire ......................................... 17 membership does not increase the number of discounts available. Email: [email protected] your visits to the attractions in this guide! Sussex ................................................34 www.cpre.org.uk Hertfordshire ....................................19 • Lone members visiting a property that offers Thank you again for being one of our valued members. Your a 2 for 1 discount are not entitled to 50% membership makes a real difference to what we can achieve, and with Warwickshire ................................. 38 Campaign to Protect Rural England is a company limited by Isle Of Wight ..................................20 reduction on their single ticket instead. your generous support we will continue our work towards our vision of guarantee, registered in England, number 4302973. Registered • The discounts cannot be used for special a thriving, beautiful countryside for everyone. Wiltshire ............................................. 41 charity number 1089685. Kent ......................................................20 event days. With warmest regards, Lancashire ....................................... 23 Worcestershire ............................. 42 • Please remember to take your membership Printed on paper manufactured from woodpulp sourced from CPRE Supporter Care Team card and this guide with you when you visit. sustainable forests. Leicestershire ............................... 23 Yorkshire .......................................... 42 Website Telephone Email Transport Opening times Privilege Accessibility Chiltern Line from Marylebone or Bus services from Milton Keynes Central The Roald Dahl Museum & Metropolitan Line from Baker Street Station and Bedford Station, both call Story Centre 01525 373888 at the bus stop opposite the Bull Pub Chiltern Open Air Museum to Chalfont & Latimer or Chorleywood, [email protected] then short taxi ride to the Museum. or Market Place. See website for more The Roald Dahl Museum, 81-83 High Street, A 70 minute return journey by narrow- details and links to timetables. Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 0AL 30th March – 29th October. Daily, 10am gauge steam train on a line with Great - 5pm. (last admission 3.30pm). 18th February - 18th December; Tuesday - www.roalddahl.com/museum War origins. Departures from Page’s Park Saturday; 10.30am - 4.30pm. 01494 892192 Station, on the south side of the town: 2 tickets for the price of 1, on full price adult 2 for 1 admission. Does not include [email protected] follow the brown signs from the town or child prices, with cheapest admission Annual Pass. Offer does not extend to centre, or A505/A4146 southern bypass. being free. Offer not valid with any other This great little award-winning museum, special events. situated in Roald Dahl’s home village, Leighton Buzzard (2 miles). Arriva D1 runs special offer or discount. Does not apply is aimed at 6 to 12 year olds and their frequently to Page's Park from main-line to Halloween Spectacular, special Evening Milton’s Cottage, Museum & families. It houses three fun and fact- station, Grand Union canal and town Events or Enchanted Museum. Literary Garden packed interactive galleries. Boy Gallery centre. Not Sundays or Bank Holidays. focuses on Roald Dahl’s prank-filled school Departures vary so see website or call Cowper & Newton Museum 21 Deanway, Chalfont St.Giles, days. In Solo Gallery you can peek into for details. Buckinghamshire, HP8 4JH Orchard Side, Market Place, Olney, his original Writing Hut and check your 2 adult tickets for the price of 1. Buckinghamshire, MK46 4AJ www.miltonscottage.org spark-factor on the Sparkometer. The Discount can only be claimed at booking Story Centre is full of fantabulous creative www.cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk office and not through online booking. 01494 872313 displays and activities. Join in with clue 4 Not valid for travel on special event days 5 01234 711516 [email protected] trails, storytelling, workshops and events and not in December. house-manager@ Avonside Steam or Diesel trains operate Saturday The cottage is 16th century Grade 1 listed, at weekends and in the school holidays. & Sunday, April to September (except cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk Follow the Village and Countryside Trails Avon Valley Railway Buckinghamshire the only surviving building where the great the first Saturday of each month) plus Relive Georgian Life in Olney. Historic poet and parliamentarian lived and where to see the places that inspired Roadl Dahl selected Wednesdays from May to townhouse, tranquil gardens and some and feature in the stories. Bitton Railway Station, Bath Road, Bitton, he completed ‘Paradise Lost’. There is a September (plus Thursdays in August) Chiltern Open Air Museum of the greatest stories of the era. William Bristol, BS30 6HD museum of world class Milton’s works and Great Missenden Railway Station plus Sundays in October. Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Cowper, poet, letter-writer, and gardener also a Grade 2 registered garden filled (Chiltern Railways). www.avonvalleyrailway.org lived in this 18th century house. John 2 tickets for the price of 1 - lowest price Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, HP8 4AB with trees, plants and flowers mentioned in Tuesday - Friday; 10am - 5pm, Saturday & Newton, former slave-trader turned 0117 9325538 free. Valid on dates with Timetables A, www.coam.org.uk Milton’s works. Sunday; 11am - 5pm. Closed Mondays. Check evangelical minister, abolitionist and [email protected] B & D only. Not valid for special event 01494 871117 Railway stations at Chalfont & Hatimer website for occasional Monday openings, author of “Amazing Grace” lived close by. The Avon Valley Railway is returning steam days or for our dining or Santa trains. and Gerrards Cross Station (3 miles). Easter and Christmas opening times. [email protected] Together they wrote the ‘Olney Hymns’. to Bristol and Bath. See our beautifully 2 tickets for the price of 1 (1 adult + 1 child or 2 Explore over 30 rescued historic buildings, Exhibitions of their lives plus Olney’s past April - October: Thursday, Friday, restored station, take a ride in a heritage adults) on presentation of membership card. Bedfordshire including