I forgot to mention on the post for 10 October, but the children's author, Beatrix Potter, lived around Lake Windemere. There's the Beatrix Potter House in Lake Windemere and all kinds of reproductions of her illustrations. The Beatrix Potter House has a garden and they save and store heritage seeds of the plants she would have grown and been familiar with, including a radish that looks a bit like a ruddy carrot. She raised a type of heritage breed sheep called a "Herdwick" which starts out black and goes mostly grey as it grows up. We did see a few of these.
Anyway, on to Whittington Castle and Powys Castle. By the time we got to Whittington, itas pouring! As a result, the pictures are a bit sparse.
Whittington Castle Gatehouse. Whittington Castle is close enough for a daytrip on a nicer day :-) According to our guide, it's the only community-run (community-owned?) castle in England. Elizabeth Chadwick has written 2 books about the family who built Whittington, which (of course) I bought in the little shop there.
An exhibit of (plastic bones) in the dungeon. Suitably spooky :-)
Some Civil War armour they found in the moat.
Powys Castle in the rain.
Cool statue in the courtyard of Powys Castle.
Close up of the Welsh Dragon weathervane. They don't allow inside pictures, but there was some pretty neat stuff in there!
One of a pair of small cannons at the front door. I think they had some significance to Clive of India, but that needs a bit more research.
More Powys in the rain.
Funny little phone box at the gate.
Autumn color.
There were also a lot of deer just wandering around. The castle is worth another look on a sunny day just for the indoor collections. There wasn't much light and because it was so dull, things were difficult to see.
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