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Heritage Tours
Bath
Saturday 21 June
Coach leaves Northwich
Memorial Hall at 8.00ama
Other pick-ups available
£28.00
Around Britain's only hot
spring, the Romans built a
magnificent temple and
bathing complex (see front
cover) that still flows with
natural hot water. The
extensive ruins and treasures from the spring are
beautifully preserved and
presented using the best of
modern interpretation.
Celebrating Bath’s most
famous resident, The Jane
Austen Centre offers a
snapshot of life during
Regency times and explores
how living in this magnificent city affected Jane
Austen’s life and writing.
Bath Abbey has magnificent
stained glass windows,
columns of honey-gold
stone and some of the
finest fan vaulting in the
world, create an extraordinary experience of light and
space.
No.1 Royal Crescent is a
Georgian town house that
creates a wonderfully vital
picture of life in Georgian Bath.

Chipping Campden and
Hidcote Gardens
Saturday 12 July
Coach leaves Northwich
Memorial Hall at 8.30amb
Other pick-ups available
£24.00
Chipping Campden's church,
St. James, at the north end
of the town, is perhaps, the
finest 'wool' church in the
Cotswolds, with a magnificent 120ft (36 metre) tower
and a very spacious interior.
The ancient Mark Hall was
built in 1627 by Sir Baptist
Hicks for a cost of £90. It
was for the purpose of
giving shelter to the local
market selling cheese,
butter and poultry.
Chipping Campden has
important links with the
Arts and Crafts movement.
C R Ashbee set up his Guild
of Handicrafts here in 1902.
His workshop in the old silk
mill in Sheep Street is now
a small museum.

Duxford Air Museum
Saturday 2 August
Coach leaves Northwich
Memorial Hall at 8.00ama
Other pick-ups available
£28.00

IWM Duxford is set within
the spacious grounds of the
famous former First and
Second World War airfield.
Lose yourself for a whole
day wandering under and
around some of the most
iconic aircraft in the world
and get hands-on with the
award-winning interactive
exhibitions. IWM Duxford is
home to an impressive
collection of over two
hundred aircraft as well as
tanks, military vehicles and
boats.
An original 1917 Belfast
hangar hosting the Battle of
Britain exhibition contrasts
dramatically with the
remarkable architecture of
the American Air Museum,
designed by contemporary
British architects Foster and
Partners.

After lunch we visit Hidcote
Arts and Crafts Garden
(NT). Created by the
19 New King Street is a
talented American horticuldelightful and unique
example of a fully restored
turist, Major Lawrence
Johnston its colourful and
modest Georgian townintricately designed outdoor
house. It was home to the
‘rooms’ are always full of
astronomer and musician
surprises.
William Herschel.
DAN Community, The Library, Witton Street, Northwich CW9 5DR