It was another long drive--65+ miles through the hedgerows and hollow ways*--from Kilpeck to Welsh Pool and Powys, our next base camp--and so we decided to stop off at Berrington Hall, another National Trust site, for a look at the house and garden. Of course, being pretty well traveled in this part of England and Wales, we had been to Berrington before, in June of 2016. Berrington is one of the best-preserved of the the Trust's many "great" houses...associated with a Mayor of London, with one of the Royal Navy's great leaders, and its landscape was the last done by the legendary Capability Brown. The pix below are fairly self-explanatory and hopefully won't duplicate very many of those from the previous visit. The are:
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2016/06/berrington-hall.htmlhttps://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2016/06/berrington-parkland-culpabilitys-last.html.
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| The main house |
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| Election hankie...click to enlarge |
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Among Berrington's major themes was dress in Georgian times; so there
are examples in nearly every room |
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We were pretty taken with the ceiling treatments throughout the house;
mostly by the Italian painter Biagio Rebecca, among the finest surviving |
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| The floor treatments were pretty nice too |
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| Admiral Rodney battle scene, no doubt |
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| Really nice stairwells for the great and the good |
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| "Trains and feathers..." required |
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| Re-creation of the gown and train...see photo |
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| Which is saying something... |
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| Much more on the jumbo dresses in the 2016 posts |
*remember, you're going 20mph, tops, on a single-lane track, very limited visibility, stopping often at the intermittent turn-outs for opposing traffic or to let impatient drivers behind you pass...oh yes, driving on the "proper" side of the road, too...
