Places to see in ( Dunstable - UK )
Places to see in ( Dunstable - UK )
Dunstable is a market town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. Dunstable lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, 30 miles north of London. These geographical features form several steep chalk escarpments most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north. Dunstable is the largest settlement in Central Bedfordshire and third largest in Bedfordshire behind Luton and Bedford.
Dunstable's first railway opened in 1848. It was a branch joining the West Coast Main Line at Leighton Buzzard. A second line linking Dunstable with Hatfield via Luton opened in 1858. Passenger services to Dunstable were withdrawn in 1965, but the line between Dunstable and Luton.
Shops were concentrated along High Street North/South (Watling Street) and in 1966 the Quadrant Shopping Centre opened. By the 1980s, Dunstable town centre was a successful shopping centre featuring major retailers including Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Bejam/Iceland, Boots, Halfords, Co-op department store, Argos, Woolworths, Burton and many independent specialist shops including Moore's of Dunstable. These attracted shoppers from outlying villages resulting in a thriving retail town centre larger than would be supportable by Dunstable residents alone. So much so that in 1985 the Eleanor's Cross retail area was developed to cater mainly for smaller shops.
The A5 trunk road lies at the heart of Dunstable's transport infrastructure, directing movement north and south. This movement is additionally complemented by the M1 motorway which is located east of the town in Luton. Dunstable is served by two main operators, Arriva and Centrebus. Arriva runs the interurban services to Luton (direct and via Houghton Regis), Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury, but other routes have been steadily taken over from Arriva by Centrebus in recent years, which now provides services to St Albans, Harpenden, Luton (direct and via Caddington), Toddington and Milton Keynes. Centrebus also operates three local services within Dunstable to Beecroft/Weatherby, Downside and the Langdale Road estate. Many bus services are financially supported by Central Bedfordshire Council.
Construction of the Luton Dunstable Busway between Houghton Regis, Dunstable, Luton and Luton Airport was completed in September 2013. Much of the busway runs along the lines of the old railway which has been converted into a guided busway and dedicated roadway. Buses travel on ordinary roads around Dunstable, Houghton Regis and at the airport, but benefit from fast transit (up to 50MPH) with few stops on the busway itself between these centres. Dunstable was once served by the Dunstable Branch Lines to Leighton Buzzard and to Luton from Dunstable Town railway station. There have been a number of campaigns for the re-establishment of a passenger railway, but these have been superseded by the Luton Dunstable Busway, which uses the former rail route (see Bus Transport above). Dunstable is one of the largest towns south of the Midlands conurbations without its own rail service. But as part of the small Luton-Dunstable conurbation it is 3 mi (5 km) from Leagrave station.
Within the town centre is the Grove Theatre, Priory House Heritage Centre and the Priory Church where Henry VIII formalised his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. At the heart of the town sits the Quadrant Shopping Centre, whilst across High Street North a secondary shopping community named the Eleanor's Cross Shopping Precinct hosts a modern statue commemorating the original cross. Nearby Luton has the Waulud's Bank prehistoric henge and Luton Museum & Art Gallery.
Dunstable Downs, a chalky escarpment outside the town, is a popular site for kite flying, paragliding and hang gliding, while the London Gliding Club provides a base for conventional gliding and other air activities at the bottom of the Downs. Further into the countryside are the open-range Whipsnade Zoo, a garden laid out in the form of a cathedral at Whipsnade Tree Cathedral and the Totternhoe Knolls motte-and-bailey castle.
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Places to see in ( Winchcombe - UK )
Places to see in ( Winchcombe - UK )
Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the local authority district of Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, England. Its population according to the 2011 census was 4,538. The Belas Knap Neolithic long barrow on a hilltop above Winchcombe, was constructed from about 3000 BC. Later, during Anglo-Saxon times, Winchcombe was a chief city of Mercia favoured by Coenwulf; the others being Lichfield and Tamworth. Subsequently, during the 11th century, the town was briefly the county town of Winchcombeshire. The Anglo-Saxon saint St. Kenelm is believed to be buried in the town.
During the Anarchy of the 12th century, a motte-and-bailey castle was erected in the early 1140s by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford for the Empress Matilda, although the exact site of this is unknown;. It has been suggested however, that it was to the south of St Peter's Church. In the Restoration period, Winchcombe was noted for cattle rustling and other lawlessness, caused in part by poverty. In an attempt to earn a living, local people grew tobacco as a cash crop, despite this practice having been outlawed since the Commonwealth. Soldiers were sent in on at least one occasion to destroy the illegal crop.
In Winchcombe and the immediate vicinity can be found Sudeley Castle and the remains of Hailes Abbey, which was one of the main centres of pilgrimages in Britain due to a phial possessed by the monks said to contain the Blood of Christ. There is nothing left of the now-vanished Winchcombe Abbey. St Peter's Church in the centre of the town is noted for its grotesques. The Michelin star restaurant 5 North Street is in Winchcombe.
Winchcombe sits on six long-distance footpaths: The Cotswold Way, the Gloucestershire Way, the Wychavon Way, St Kenelm's Trail, St Kenelm's Way, the Warden's Way and the Windrush Way. Winchcombe became a member of the Walkers are Welcome network of towns in July 2009 and now holds a walking festival every May.
Winchcombe was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, which was opened in 1906 by the Great Western Railway. The line ran from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham and was part of a main line from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales. Winchcombe railway station and most others on the section closed in March 1960. Through passenger services continued on this line until March 1968, and goods until 1976 when a derailment at Winchcombe damaged the line. It was decided not to bring the section back into use and by the early 1980s it had been dismantled. The stretch between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, including Winchcombe, has since been reconstructed and reopened as a heritage railway called the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. A new railway station has been erected at Winchcombe, on its original site, the building being the former station at Monmouth ((Troy) railway station). Nearby is the 693 yard (634 m) Greet Tunnel, the second longest on any preserved line in Britain.
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2018 Oct 10 A Day in the Cotswolds: Broadway and Bourton-on-the-Water
Following on from my last video ( which showed the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway from Toddington to Broadway, here is what I did for the rest of the day.
Just a few highlights from two of the most famous tourist traps in the British Cotswolds, Broadway and Bourton-on-the-Water.
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Places to Visit: Caravanning in the Cotswolds
This week we took our touring caravan to The Cotswolds and stayed in a Caravan and Camping Club site near Bourton-on-the-Water. It was our first trip to the area and we were blown away by the ‘chocolate box’ towns. We spent our time stopping around two areas, soaking up the atmosphere and views of the many quintessentially English villages. We started with a top breakfast at The Hollow Bottom in Guiting Power, followed up with a saunter over to Lower Slaughter and then Bourton-on-the-Water. We feel like we barely scratched the surface and will be sure to return.
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Spring in Bedfordshire, England
Every early Spring (April) in southern England, the countryside is covered with cheerful shades of yellow flowers. This is rapeseed. Farmers glow them for vegetable oil. Between mid May to early June, the flowers fall and the fields become green again. This video was filmed in Bedford, along the Cycling National Route 51 between Bedford and Sandy.
En Burford, UK
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Italy to UK Motorhome Trip March 2017 Episode 1
In March 2017, we flew to Pisa Italy to pick up a Roller Team T-Line 740 from the Trigano Roller Team Factory in Cusano, Italy.
We had 7 days to drive the motorhome back to Toddington to the Just Go offices. To make things cheaper and as a true test for our future plans, we also decided we should,
A) Avoid Toll Roads and instead, take Tolle Roads and enjoy the Scenery
B) Stay in Aires and Sastos where possible
C) preferably find ones with free electic.
D) Drive a little every day, and
E) Have Duane work every work day week as close to work hours as possible!
Let's just say we needed a holiday from this holiday!
We naturally took our camera's along and attempted to record the events, sites, sights, and routes of the trip.
This is our first episode covering our collection of the motorhome, an informal review of the T-Line 740 we christened Tempe, and as many of our Newbie mistakes and learning processes as possible.
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Tetbury Town In The Cotswolds Gloucestershire
Tetbury is a small town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census.
During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold wool and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, Founded 1972, is an annual competition where participants must carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a steep hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the late May Bank Holiday, the last Monday in May each year (27 May for 2013).
Notable buildings in the town include the Market House, built in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene and much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still in use as a meeting place and market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum lie just outside the town.
Tetbury has won five consecutive Gold awards in the Regional Heart of England in Bloom competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was category winner Best Small Town in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Judges Discretionary Award for Community Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Bloom Campaign in 2009 and a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011.
GWSR - Cotswold Steam Celebration 2013
In 2010 and early 2011, two devastating landslips split the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway at Gotherington and Chicken Curve (nr Winchcombe), resulting in major repairs that would cost in excess of £1million. The railway was split in two, with trains running between Winchcombe and Gotherington, and between the Winchcombe outer-home signal and Toddington.
In a heroic effort by other preserved railways, enthusiasts and Steam Railway magazine, the funds to complete repairs on the two sections of track were completed in September/October 2012, with trains starting to work down to the southern terminus at Cheltenham Racecourse over the two landslip sites. The line was reconnected in time for resident 7903 'Foremarke Hall' to run a number of special services over to the current railway limit at Laverton from Cheltenham Racecourse.
To celebrate the return of the full-length GWSR, the railway held it's ever popular Cotswold Festival of Steam, renamed this year as the Cotswold Steam Celebration. It was to be a 'Big 4' style gala, with a total of 7 locomotives in steam over the 4 day event. With an intensive timetable, this was the perfect time for me to visit the line for the first time.
The locomotives that featured at the event:
GWR 'Modified' Hall 7903 'Foremarke Hall'
GWR 'Prairie' 4575 class 5542
GWR 28xx class 2807
LMS 8F 8274 (formerly Turkish Republic Railways 45151 class)
SR V 'Schools' class 925 'Cheltenham' (Visiting from the Mid Hants Railway)
LNER B12 8572 (Visiting from the North Norfolk Railway)
BR Standard 4MT 80072 (Visiting from the Llangollen Railway)
The event was very impressive, with all 7 locomotives in fine voice on their respective trains. The addition of the freight train added much interest, and it was very impressive to see 5542 and 2807 on the GWR freight train.
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8572 - Gotherington and Hayles Abbey Halt
925 - Cheltenham Racecourse and Gotherington
925+80072 - Cheltenham Racecourse and Gotherington
80072 - Hayles Abbey Halt, Gotherington and Cheltenham Racecourse
7903 - Bishop's Cleeve and Gotherington station
5542 - Bishop's Cleeve and Gotherington
8476 - Gotherington station
2807 - Gotherington
Thanks to all involved at this gala, and I thoroughly recommend visiting this railway if you haven't already.
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Town Centre, Cheltenham
Video of this town in Gloucestershire.