Accessible Britain
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THE EAST MIDLANDS AND EAST ANGLIA<br />
IWM Duxford<br />
are connected to each other by good, level paths and most have automatic doors.<br />
There’s a wheelchair lift up to the 1940 Operations Room (from where RAF fighter<br />
planes were directed during the Battle of <strong>Britain</strong>), with a help point alongside to call<br />
for staff assistance. In addition, visitors with visual impairments are allowed to touch<br />
the aircraft and free audio guides for AirSpace and the Historic Duxford exhibition<br />
are available: the audio guide should be reserved in advance on 01223 499314 or email<br />
duxford@iwm.org.uk. All audio-visual presentations have subtitles, and many have<br />
BSL interpretation, while most audio exhibits have the support of induction loops.<br />
Guide and assistance dogs are welcome.<br />
FOOD & DRINK aa IWM Duxford has a restaurant and a café, both self-service. Hot meals<br />
are available as well as sandwiches, snacks, soft drinks, teas and coffees.<br />
075 An Artistic Drive through East Anglia<br />
Driving distance: 26 miles Approx time without stops: 1 hour<br />
East Anglia’s Stour Valley and Dedham Vale are famous as “Constable Country”, for it<br />
was here that the great nineteenth-century landscape artist, John Constable, painted<br />
some of his best-known canvasses. But he wasn’t the only English artist associated with<br />
this area, as the following scenic drive reveals.<br />
Our route begins in the pretty village of Long Melford, the location of Melford Hall, a<br />
red-brick Elizabethan pile set in 130 acres of parkland (01787 379228, www.nationaltrust.<br />
org.uk). The property was formerly owned by relatives of the author-illustrator Beatrix<br />
Potter, who frequently came to stay: you can visit her bedroom and admire a collection<br />
of her charming watercolours and sketches in the Beatrix Potter Room. Melford Hall has<br />
disabled parking, ramped access and two accessible toilets. A stair lift takes wheelchair<br />
users to the first floor, though only one wheelchair at a time is permitted upstairs.<br />
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