Tour 25
15th May to 30th Sept - runs on Wednesday and Sunday

Visit Chartwell - See Cutty Sark - Drive through the Kent countryside - Visit Battle

GREENWICH - Our first stop is riverside Greenwich where we can photograph the 'Cutty Sark', the fastest sailing ship built in the 19th century for the important sea trade witht he Indies and 'Gypsy Moth IV', the tiny ketch in which Francis Chichester single-handedly circumnavigated the world in 1966/7. We will also admire the elegant buildings of the Royal Naval College and the National Maritime Museum through which the Meridian Line runs.

BATTLE - Next we drive south over the lovely North Downs and through the picturesque 'Weald' of the county of Kent pas hop fields and oast houses in to the county of Sussex to visit the site on Senlac Hill outside the charming little town of Battle just north of Hastings of the battle which changed the course of English history in 1066. There will be time for lunch in one of Battle's medieval inns.

CHARTWELL - Finally west and north through the beautiful Ashdown Forest to visit 'Chartwell' the lovely home of Winston Churchill from 1922-65, now preserved as a memorial to Britian's greatest 20th century statesman. On our return to London we will drive past the Millenium Dome.