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Our 18-night England's villages small group tours for mature aged and senior travellers explores the many facets of rural life in England. This educational small group escorted tour takes you through different eras and across a variety of beautiful landscapes. Professional guides teach you about the history and culture that over centuries has created the Villages of England. Over the period of the program your program leader will take you to places such as east Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Cotswolds, Yorkshire , Dartmoor Devon and Cornwall.
Packed to the brim with history, culture, and striking scenery, and have a lot to offer the traveller. Our of England's villages are perfect for the mature or senior traveller who wants to and as part of an intimate with an expert local guide. From to tracing the Industrial revolution, you can on a with Odyssey. We take in the must-see sights, while nonetheless offering experiences that venture off the beaten path on Odyssey Travellers English village history tour.
This tour for mature aged and senior travellers includes days spent a number of quintessentially English prettiest and oldest places to live in the villages. This collection of English villages visited reflects a range of economic activities, architectural styles and historic influences. From chocolate box thatched cottages, the local parish church, the inn, to the country house built of Cotswold stone, or fishing boats tied up in what are today popular tourist towns in England. This program explores and provides delight in visiting and learning about the history of some of these English countryside villages. This historic small group tour also provides a look at life in castles, a country estate and manor house. Short guided walks and village museums provide interesting insights into village life often dating back to medieval times.
The journey tours begins by visiting the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex. This provides an opportunity not only to explore country life, but also serves as an excellent introduction to our tour. From across Sussex the 'museum' houses fifty traditional village buildings with historic domestic interiors. It also includes an array of interesting farm buildings and even a mediaeval shop. It vividly portrays the lives of the people in a east English village who lived and worked here over a 600- year period. Working buildings include a water mill and sawpit shed. We also take the chance to view domestic and craft demonstrations reflective of rural life over time.
The Villages of England small group tour also includes visits to numerous country villages and houses that have been used as TV and film sets, e.g. Lacock, Castle Combe, Port Isaac. Perhaps you'll recognise some of these locations from your favourite British dramas and period pieces! We also explore the haunting stones at Avebury, with its very own Neolithic World Heritage Site, and view the Tudor mansion and glorious gardens of Hever Castle, childhood home of Anne Boleyn. In addition, we enjoy taking in the magnificent and varied scenery of rural England, and learn about the fascinating styles of architecture that make English villages unique.
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