Maiden Castle is in Dorset, not really the Cotswolds, but doable if they have a car. I love Maiden Castle and the whole of West Dorset. If they are literary-historical types and are in the area I recommend a trip to Bincombe with a copy of Hardy's "The Melancholy Hussar".
> On 16 Apr 2019, at 20:52, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you're in the Cotswolds and going to Avebury, up the Fossway there's a > Roman Villa that's worth a visit. In the general area, there's a wonderful > earthworks called "Maiden's Castle" that's worth a half day hike, and of > course there's the huge Uffington White Horse and the walk along the ridge > above it, including a Neolithic burial site called Waylen's Smithy (the model > that JRR Tolkien used for the Barrow Downs in Lord of the Rings...). > > G > >> On Apr 16, 2019, at 7:55 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've got a couple of friends from the Oregon coast heading to GB in a short >> while. There are quite a few folks on this list that live, or visit that >> part of the world, though my memory and geographic knowledge isn't good >> enough to know if anyone is within even a day's drive. >> >> But, if anyone knows the area Mark and Kaety are heading to, and can >> recommend sites, and more importantly good places to eat, let me know and >> I'll introduce you folks by email. >> >> In a FB Messenger discussion, Mark said: >> We are staying a few days in the Cotswolds - Painswick area right outside >> Gloucester. We are using it as a base to foray out to see the medieval. A >> time in Bath, over to Avebury, a time to Wye Valley. We spend two night in >> London on the tail end. We love Indian but mostly we want to eat food so >> good it makes us cry. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
