A day trip to Burghley House, Lincolnshire

On Sunday 9th July, Brian, Kathy, Jinan, Ken and Val piled into Brian’s car for a trip to Burghley, near Stamford in Lincolnshire. The weather was fine again, starting at 22 degrees and rising to near 30 degrees.

We had booked online and on arrival were issued with annual passes. Note to selves: must visit again before July 2018.

We first visited the Garden of Surprises. This is a water based heaven for kids and in this hot weather they were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Being kids ourselves we had to try the mirror maze in the garden.

On to the Sculpture garden. One of the sculptures was a wooden life-size tank! There were many others which we either liked or not depending on taste. The walk was through Capability Brown designed gardens with a beautiful lake.

We decided to leave lunch till later and went into the house. This is most impressive with lots of history – the house was originally occupied by Lord Burghley of Elizabeth 1’s reign and later was bombarded by Oliver Cromwell’s forces. The many rooms were sumptuously furnished and the silver wine cooler was an eye opener, taking four men to lift.

After a pleasant 90 minutes in the house we went to the Orangery restaurant for lunch. Gasping at the prices, we ordered and settled down at a table outside. 50 minutes later the last order had been delivered. Admittedly, the food was nice but next time we will have a picnic.

There were more gardens to explore but we decided to leave that for another time and made our way home, only slightly held up by the traffic from the Duxford Air Show on the M11.

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Brian U. 10th July 2017