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Continuing actress/author Diz White's love note to this beautiful
region More Cotswolds Memoirs finds her on another fun-filled
roller coaster ride as she builds on to her Grade II listed cottage
and, during her journey, discovers the Cotswold film locations of
Downton Abbey, explores their history and meets with the stars of
the series. The story began in her last book COTSWOLDS MEMOIR:
Discovering a Beautiful Region of Britain on a Quest to Buy a 17th
Century Cottage and now with new adventures and updates of the
characters introduced in this memoir her travel-tour of the region
turns into another laugh-out-loud, good life, foodie, meet the
eccentric locals, cliff-hanging read. Will the author overcome all
obstacles and achieve her goal - Cotswold bliss in her newly
renovated cottage? Gorgeous colour photographs of Downton Abbey
stars filming in Bampton and celebrating at their end of series
party are included. Added to this are photographs of stunning
scenery making this book a souvenir of the Cotswolds.There is also
valuable information for cottage owners preparing to build an
extension with Practical Tips and ingenious ways to ensure Grade
listed planning approval.A Resource Guide for listed property
owners is at the end of the narrative along with an extensive
Visitor's Guide which includes this authors choice of the best the
Cotswolds has to offer in historic sites, activities,
accommodation, gastro-pubs, restaurants, antique emporiums, open
gardens, etc. with many off-the-beaten-track and eclectic choices.
Postcodes for instant input into GPS or Sat Navs are included as
are web sites for every entry.More Cotswolds Memoirs doubles as a
Travel-Tour of the Cotswolds. Several chapters contain an Itinerary
for an ideal day out with a ready-made route leading to fun
activities and suggestions for places to eat, historic sites etc.
grouped together within an easily accessible distance. Visitors are
saved the time and trouble of planning a lovely day out in the
Cotswolds. An Index helps visitors to easily find descriptions of
villages, historic sites and many other highlights of the
Cotswolds.
After British-born, comedy actress Diz White found herself craving
Yorkshire Pudding at every meal she knew her roots were pulling her
back from America to her homeland. It was time to buy a Cotswolds
Cottage! Her roller-coaster search doubles as a travel-tour that
takes in every delight of the Cotswolds: historic sites, hog
roasts, hiking the Cotswold Way and pub walks with her husband,
often bagging the walk in favour of a slightly boozy lunch.There
were highs, heartbreaks and cliff-hangers as she was charged by a
bull named Chasin' Mason, auditioned for the hind end of a horse
and was trampled by thirty children while wearing a bear suit, but
the fondness she developed for this region and its vivid
inhabitants gave her a feeling of community missing from her busy
urban existence. Will this author's dream cottage become a reality?
Find out in this witty love note to the Cotswolds. This book does
double-duty as a travel tour of the Cotswolds and features a
valuable VISITOR'S GUIDE with GPS and Sat Nav info, a MAP and over
a dozen especially commissioned PHOTOGRAPHS.
Spine-chilling tales of ghosts, ghouls and the undead have been
gathered here from every corner of the Cotswolds, revealing in
heart-stopping detail this region's unexplained events and the
creepy elements that lurk just beneath its rolling hills and
beautiful vistas. These stories, illustrated with more than sixty
photographs, include: King Charles I's headless haunting of
Chavenage House; the ghost of Warwick Castle as he emerges from his
portrait; the ghouls of the Ram Inn, the most haunted building in
Britain; the banshee of Banbury Cross; and a ghostly Guy Fawkes and
his conspirators who still plot to blow up Parliament. In this
volume, descriptions of Cotswold architecture and history are woven
into thrilling stories of supernatural happenings, promising those
with an interest in the paranormal terrifying dreams for years to
come.
This collection of chilling tales from Cheltenham and its
surroundings would be enough to frighten the wits out of most
paranormal fanatics, but the horror is taken up a notch in this
volume because Prestbury, reputedly the most haunted village in
Britain, lies within its borders. Illustrated with more than 60
atmospheric photographs, this book includes scary stories of a
Civil War spook, a spinet-playing shade, a time-stealing sprite, an
out-of-body-experience specter, a snake-ridden and skull-faced
phantom, and a bedroom-wrecking banshee. Descriptions of the town's
architecture and history are woven into jaw-dropping stories of
spooky happenings that will captivate any reader with a taste for
the supernatural.
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