Home again

An excellent nights sleep, nice room and a lovely big shower room. We had scrambled egg on toast for breakfast, with orange juice and coffee, it was well cooked and very hot.

After breakfast we vacated our room and put the case etc in the car and then set off on a walk around the village. Our Hotel had originally been called The Wool Sack, it went through a number of name changes eventually becoming Longs Hotel, named after the chap who built it in the 16th Century. 

A lot of the village houses are Georgian as a previous Duke of Bedford decreed that all new houses in the village should be built in the Georgian style, and indeed they still are today.

The inn itself was a coaching inn and originally had just 2 floors and a thatched roof. The duke of Bedford who insisted that all new buildings in the village should be in Georgian style also had an extra floor built on and infact paid for it!! So it became a 3 storey building.

We saw what looked like a Church on the opposite side of the road.

We were informed that originally it had been a mortuary chapel, but had fallen into disuse. However thanks to various grants it has been converted into a very interesting museum and contained lots of information about the villages and its people through the ages.

A typical cottage kitchen.

Behind the weights is a very old sewing machine, for-runner of the singer treadle machine you can see in the first picture.

We made our way back to wait for our guests for lunch, we knew there were only to be 4 of us plus the baby. A lovely lunch, the chef took on board that two of the guests were on Keto diets and their meals came with that in mind. We enjoyed our stay and promised we would go back again.

Just after 2pm we set off for home, the M! was bust but no hold ups. We were glad we were going North, the South bound lane was blocked by what looked like a 3 car shunt and the traffic trailed back for miles....I was so glad we were going back the other way. Home again, a cup of tea and s sit down.

The birthday girl on the bouncy castle.