Great West Way® Travel Magazine | Issue 01
The first edition of a brand-new magazine showcasing the Great West Way, Britain's newest touring route, has been launched. The Great West Way Travel Magazine features 84 pages of informative articles and stunning photography brimming with inspiration to explore further, delve deeper and uncover the essence of this unique part of England. It presents a series of inspirational themed features, articles and ideas suitable for visitors travelling along the route by road, rail, water, on bike or on foot. The magazine highlights the extraordinary variety of amazing tourism destinations and experiences along the route, each with something unique to offer. From idyllic countryside, beautifully quaint villages to elegant towns and buzzing cities, a route where creativity and culture rub shoulders with world-famous heritage.
The first edition of a brand-new magazine showcasing the Great West Way, Britain's newest touring route, has been launched. The Great West Way Travel Magazine features 84 pages of informative articles and stunning photography brimming with inspiration to explore further, delve deeper and uncover the essence of this unique part of England. It presents a series of inspirational themed features, articles and ideas suitable for visitors travelling along the route by road, rail, water, on bike or on foot. The magazine highlights the extraordinary variety of amazing tourism destinations and experiences along the route, each with something unique to offer. From idyllic countryside, beautifully quaint villages to elegant towns and buzzing cities, a route where creativity and culture rub shoulders with world-famous heritage.
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ARISTOCRATIC ACRES<br />
A journey along the <strong>Great</strong> <strong>West</strong> Way takes the traveller past<br />
some of England’s most spectacular palaces and historic houses<br />
Words: Diana Woolf<br />
There are over 30 National Trust properties<br />
alone along the <strong>Great</strong> <strong>West</strong> Way route. Many<br />
we have already mentioned, such as Cliveden,<br />
Mompesson House, Montacute House and<br />
Runnymede, the site of the sealing of the Magna Carta,<br />
to name but a few.<br />
Almost before you leave London, you pass the royal<br />
palaces at Kew, Hampton Court and Windsor Castle, the<br />
oldest occupied castle in the world.<br />
Then further west, as the countryside opens up<br />
and the landscape is scattered with an array of stately<br />
homes, two further castles, Highclere and Berkeley.<br />
Many of these properties are still owned by the<br />
aristocratic families who first built them. We hope you<br />
feel inspired by our selection of those you must visit.<br />
BOWOOD HOUSE & GARDENS, WILTSHIRE<br />
Bowood House, famed for its gardens, is owned by the<br />
Marquis of Lansdowne. Be enchanted by the herbaceous<br />
borders and the Italianate terrace gardens with their<br />
formal beds and fountains, and don’t miss the 30-acre<br />
Woodland Walk, with massed beds of rhododendrons.<br />
The park at Bowood designed by ‘Capability’ Brown<br />
is another highlight, featuring expanses of lawn and<br />
picturesque groups of trees sweeping down to a gently<br />
curving artificial lake, it is a quintessentially English<br />
landscape. Inside the house, which is open to the public<br />
from 30 March – 3 November 2<strong>01</strong>9, there is an unusual<br />
stately home laboratory. This is because it was here<br />
that Joseph Priestley, while working as the family tutor,<br />
discovered oxygen in 1774. You can visit the state rooms,<br />
library and chapel as well as the Orangery designed by<br />
Robert Adam in the 1760s, and the room he originally<br />
created as a small zoo which is now a sculpture gallery.<br />
36 <strong>Great</strong><strong>West</strong>Way.co.uk
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