On Friday we drove back to Jane in Newport via Leicester where we went to the Richard III exhibition. This was interesting as they explained how they discovered his remains under a car park in town. He had been buried without much ceremony in a medieval friary after his defeat by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth. Our knowledge of English history has grown and it is interesting to see the same characters reappearing at different sites with different stories.
Saturday Warren’s cold he had been fighting had worsened so I wandered around the pretty village of Newport in the morning. Jane is lucky to have such a beautiful small village with all the amenities she needs just 5 minutes from her work. Jane had just returned from London where she had attended a garden party with the Queen for people involved with the London 2012 Olympics.
In the afternoon Jane and I drove to the nearby market town of Ludlow. First stop was Stokesay Castle, which English Heritage describes as “quite simply the finest and best preserved fortified medieval manor house in England”.
On then to Ludlow Castle, a ruined medieval castle in the centre of this picturesque town. A quick walk around the markets finished the day for us.