We met Dan, with Isaac and Rose, for a day at Clumber Park, in Nottinghamshire. The drive up was one of the wettest ever, torrential rain and loads of surface water on the A1. The Park is a huge estate owned by the National Trust, and was once the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle.
Antlers and a moustache and picture frames in one room, dining furniture, which serves as picnic tables, sofas and armchairs,
a free-standing freplace and a front door! Scope for silly games and role plays.
The mansion was demolished in the 1930s.
The Park has loads of space to walk or cycle, as well as the lake and the longest double avenue of lime trees (tilia) in Europe.
The church of St Mary the Virgin is a rather blocky Gothic Revival chapel, dating from 1886. Interior of Red Runcorn stone, exterior Steetly ashlar with Red Runcorn dressings. I had to look that up! We took the opportunity to sketch the church after Dan had left, giving ourselves half an hour.
As I was packing up, these greylag geese thought the carrier bag must contain food. Sorry, guys, nothing doing.
Footnote: We were last here in June 2012. Four years pass in a flash.
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