British Travel Journal | Summer 2020
As we went to print with our last issue never could we have imagined a world in which travel would be completely stopped in its tracks. Never again will we take for granted our freedom to visit our magnificent cityscapes, captivating coastlines and peaceful countryside. It has been a difficult year for the hospitality and travel sector, but as this issue of British Travel Journal shows many are beginning to reopen, delighted to welcome back visitors and guests once more. We speak to these resilient hoteliers, destination managers, and others in the UK tourism industry about how they have responded to COVID-19. Our Cultural Agenda takes on a new direction, exchanging theatre performances for outdoor art, sculptures and natural wonders. And, in a time when remote locations are being sought after, all you need to know about wild (and nearly wild) camping is covered in our Sustainable Travel series. If camping isn’t for you, help is at hand to find the perfect holiday home in our 10 of the Best Self-Catering Properties. If you’re dreaming of strolls along the shore, fresh sea air and gently lapping waves, then you will love our coastal specials; Revival of the Beach Hut, England’s Coast, Wild Swimming and Secret Islands. Enjoy a taste of Cornwall in our Interview with Rick Stein before heading to the beach workshop of wooden bellyboards in our Meet the Maker: Wave Rider article with Dick Pearce. Finally, thank you to all our subscribers for your support, keeping our spirits high with words of encouragement and understanding the unusual delay in receiving this issue. Together we continued to dream of the extraordinary places we can explore, staying inspired with online and digital features, and hopefully by the time of reading this issue our next great adventures will have become reality.Travel safely, and together we will continue to support our wonderful tourism industry.
As we went to print with our last issue never could we have imagined a world in which travel would be completely stopped in its tracks. Never again will we take for granted our freedom to visit our magnificent cityscapes, captivating coastlines and peaceful countryside. It has been a difficult year for the hospitality and travel sector, but as this issue of British Travel Journal shows many are beginning to reopen, delighted to welcome back visitors and guests once more. We speak to these resilient hoteliers, destination managers, and others in the UK tourism industry about how they have responded to COVID-19. Our Cultural Agenda takes on a new direction, exchanging theatre performances for outdoor art, sculptures and natural wonders. And, in a time when remote locations are being sought after, all you need to know about wild (and nearly wild) camping is covered in our Sustainable Travel series. If camping isn’t for you, help is at hand to find the perfect holiday home in our 10 of the Best Self-Catering Properties. If you’re dreaming of strolls along the shore, fresh sea air and gently lapping waves, then you will love our coastal specials; Revival of the Beach Hut, England’s Coast, Wild Swimming and Secret Islands. Enjoy a taste of Cornwall in our Interview with Rick Stein before heading to the beach workshop of wooden bellyboards in our Meet the Maker: Wave Rider article with Dick Pearce. Finally, thank you to all our subscribers for your support, keeping our spirits high with words of encouragement and understanding the unusual delay in receiving this issue. Together we continued to dream of the extraordinary places we can explore, staying inspired with online and digital features, and hopefully by the time of reading this issue our next great adventures will have become reality.Travel safely, and together we will continue to support our wonderful tourism industry.
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LACOCK VILLAGE<br />
Near Chippenham, Wiltshire<br />
If you’ve watched any of the most well-loved costume<br />
dramas made over the last few decades such as<br />
Downton Abbey, or a Harry Potter film, then you will<br />
have seen Lacock Village. The village is a firm favourite<br />
with film and television drama crews and makes an<br />
appearance in a major production at least once every<br />
couple of years. Almost entirely owned by the National<br />
Trust, the village’s pretty streets of timber-framed<br />
cottages have barely changed in 300 years.<br />
The fact that modern life has barely crept in,<br />
outwardly at least, means there’s not much in the way<br />
of 21st-century life to cover up or remove. Crews don’t<br />
have to worry about satellite dishes, telegraph poles<br />
or traffic lights. As a popular tourist spot filming only<br />
happens outside school holidays and other busy times.<br />
When it does, it’s never small scale.<br />
Visit and experience Lacock Abbey where medieval<br />
rooms and cloister court give a sense of the Abbey's<br />
monastic past. Like Hogwarts, Lacock Abbey was<br />
built with a blend of quirky architectural styles. This<br />
former nunnery is a fascinating site, plus close by is the<br />
Fox Talbot Museum, that records the achievements of<br />
former Lacock resident William Henry Fox Talbot, a big<br />
name in the invention of photography.<br />
Top tip: Start your trip to Lacock with a pause at the<br />
window of the old shop at 2 High Street. In the late<br />
19th-century the building was used as a coffee tavern,<br />
then after the First World War it became a stationers<br />
and in 1966, incorporated the Post Office. It remained<br />
in the same family until it closed in the early 1980’s.<br />
Miss Butler, the last resident, arranged the shop window<br />
in the style of early twentieth century displays and<br />
it has been untouched ever since.<br />
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