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Did your Kizzie have a sister named Mamie?
Linda
First of all, transportation. You really will need a car, at least for
that part of the trip. We did get to a whole lot of places on the
train, which goes nearly everywhere, but in some of the smaller places
you still need your own transportation - not many taxi stands in places
like that... (We found that a BritRail pass was the most economical for
general travel, and I understand that you still have to get those on
this side of the ocean.)
Chetwode is truly a tiny place. Not much more than the church, the
rectory, and a few houses, plus - some way off - the manor and its
surrounding grounds. We found our way around simply by stopping people
and asking. The Lady of the Rectory was especially helpful.
Are you planning to spend any time farther north, in Staffordshire?
That's really where the CHETWODEs lived, at Oakley Hall, for several
centuries - dating back to the time that one of the John CHETWODEs
married Elizabeth de Okeley (Elizabeth of Oakley) and brought that piece
of land into the CHETWODE family. Chetwode Manor was sort of a
"vacation" place, while they actually mostly lived at Oakley Hall.
Again, the Hall no longer is in Chetwode hands, but we did gain
permission to tour the grounds, which are lovely. Oakley Hall is not
easy to find, but if you can find Mucklestone, you can gain directions
to the Hall.
Overnight accommodations are not abundant in either area, but I think
that if you were to go online and Google it, you might find places to stay.
I don't remember that we found any CHETWODE burials in either area, but
we did find indications of other branches of the family in several
places. Most interesting, to us, was a little church in Warkworth with
actual brasses (you know, where you can take a crayon and do a brass
rubbing) in the floor, under little rugs. Not the branch of the family
that we have typically traced *our* CHETWODEs back to, but interesting,
nonetheless. The brasses of actual family members date back to the
early 1400s.
Enough for now. Write back if you want more, and we can talk off list.
Nancy
keithnancy(a)t-one.net
b.chitwood(a)mchsi.com wrote:
>Need some suggestions - we get to go to London second week in May and want to
>take a side trip to Chetwode - about an hour and a half out of London - has
>anyone been there and does anyone have any ideas - areas to see around there,
>etc. transportation. Tks. Julie
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Julie, I have been there. It is well worth the trip. I am about to go
out the door right now, but when I return (this evening) I'll see what I
can find for you. I know that you will want to see the church that the
CHETWODEs founded way back when, and its rectory, and certainly the
manor house. It is lovely. We were fortunate to have one of the
employees give us a very nice tour of the outside, gardens and all;
possibly, with some advance warning, you might be lucky enough to
experience this, too.
TAKE YOUR CAMERA!!
More later.
Nancy
b.chitwood(a)mchsi.com wrote:
>Need some suggestions - we get to go to London second week in May and want to
>take a side trip to Chetwode - about an hour and a half out of London - has
>anyone been there and does anyone have any ideas - areas to see around there,
>etc. transportation. Tks. Julie
>
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