2023, August/September. Valleys and Villages Tour, Route 77 Run and Tour of the Cotswolds

 2023, 6th August. Valleys and Villages Tour

The Valleys and Villages Tour was again based in Royal Wootton Bassett and took us out into Wiltshire and Salisbury Plain area.

some nice cars at the start

The Duckworth's lovely TR8 was out again.

 

From the rugby club in Royal Wootton Bassett we headed west to a coffee stop at the Flying Monk Brewery near Hullavington then on to a picnic lunch stop at the Atwell Motor Museum at Calne.  This little museum has a surprising number of interesting cars and is well worth a visit.

Wide open spaces of Salisbury Plain

I suspect the road here floods in the winter!

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2023, 3rd September.  Route Seventy-Severn Charity Run

This is a new event to us that has previously clashed with our holidays but luckily this year it didn't. Run by the Severn Vale Rotary Club and starting from the Jet Age Museum at Gloucester it is another one right on our doorstep.

Henry Brown TR7V8 next to us at the start.

Flagged away from the start

 Their route took us up into Herefordshire before turning back south into the Forest of Dean and a coffee stop at the Hopewell Colliery cafe.  

Severn Bridge

 From there it was across the old Severn Bridge and back to the finish and a buffet lunch at Frampton on Severn Sailing Club.

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2023, 10th September. Tour of the Cotswolds

This is another local run that had previously clashed with our holidays but this time we were ok. It is run by Cleeve Motorsport and is based in Cheltenham so again very local, start and finish was at Cheltenham Town Football Club.

The route used many familiar roads to a coffee stop at the lovely Rococo Gardens in Painswick. This is a very interesting destination in its own right and there were many "civilians" there who were not part of the tour. From there we headed up into the north Cotswolds with a lunch stop at the old Northleach Prison and a trip through the Kineton ford before heading back down to Cheltenham.  

Altogether an excellent day out.

Surprising what you meet in the lanes!

Kineton ford is always fun.