A Trip to England in 2009

 Three views of the Peugeot 307 Cabriolet I hired for this trip

 It was a real "Mid Life Crisis"Car!

 The village of Caerwent in Monmouthshire, South Wales. originally founded by the Romansas the market town of Venta Silurum in AD 75

A large portion of the roman built walls survive

And there many excavated rmains of civic buildings, shops and dwellings to be seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerwent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venta_Silurum

 The Aberdulais Water Wheels, Tin Works and Waterfalls Near Port Talbot in South Wales

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1355843611173/

 The Waterfalls and Weirs

 The Dolaucothi Gold Mines near Pumsaint Camarthenshire

 Gold has been mined here since the Bronze age, and significantly during the Roman Occupation.

Commercial operations ceased in 1938

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolaucothi_Gold_Mines

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dolaucothi-gold-mines/history/

Panning for gold today!

 Dolbardarn Castle, Llanberis, Snowdonia

http://www.castlewales.com/dolbd.html 

The lake at Llanberis - the view from Dolbardarn Castle

The Dinorwig Power Station near Llanberis.  The Power Station is built in the mountain on the site of an old slate mine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station

The Snowdon Mountain railway is a spectacular train ride up to the summit of Mount Snowdon The highest point in the British Isles outside of Scotland,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdon_Mountain_Railway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxhE5hHqdPE

We were lucky - it was a perfect day

Spectacular views all the way

Another train coming down

The final stroll to the Summit

Which was fairly crowded that day

One way of beating the crowds!

The Church of St Aidan, Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, Built in 1895.  The first vicar was my grandfather, The Rev Philip Alfred Lillie.

The view across Windermere and the lake

Some boats and yachts on Lake Windermere

 This is the area immortalised in Arthur Ransome's book Swallows and Amazons

A ferry on Lake Windermere

Coniston Water

The Steam Yacht Gondola on Coniston Water

On board the Gondola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SY_Gondola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNIucKtz8bE

Aysgarth Falls on the River Ure in West Yorkshire in the Wensleydale Region

http://where2walk.co.uk/yorkshire_dales/riverside_walks/aysgarth-falls/

Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountains_Abbey

Inside the Abbey

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/372

Hadrians Wall at Birdoswald
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall

The Roman Fort of Banna (Birdoswald)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banna_%28Birdoswald%29

An Archaeological dig in Progress at Birdoswald

Hadrians Wall at Housteads (Vercovicium)

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vercovicium

Inside the fort at Housteads

 The Roman Cavalry Fort at Chesters (Cilurnum)

The site of the Roman Bridge which spanned the North Tyne River at this spot

Coughton Court in Warwickshire.  Home of the Throckmorton family since the 15th Century.  Sir Walter Raleigh married Elizabeth Throckmorton and the family played a minor role in the Gunpowder plot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coughton_Court

The Roman Villa at Great Whitcombe near Gloucester

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/great-witcombe-roman-villa/history-and-research/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Witcombe_Roman_Villa