Rousham House & Gardens, Oxfordshire.

Just put ROUSHAM into Google and read . . .
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On the west coast of Wales (UK)

". . . has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1300 years . . .
" quote from the cathedral website at http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/index.php?page=history
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A village just West of Nottingham - it has a wonderful Beer Festival each summer, visitors welcome.

In the Cambrian Mountains in Central Wales (UK).

A holiday apartments complex, part of the Royal Savoy Hotel

Sights and scenes around the island but mainly in the capital Funchau.

Charis Ward has been creating this garden for the past 34 years and is about to open the main house for house parties - six very large bedrooms.
Abbey Dore Court, Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, HR2 0AD. UK

The location is the Golden Valley in Herefordshire, ‘Dore’ is derived from the welsh word ‘dwr’ meaning water, but the Norman’s confused it with the French d’or meaning Golden – so the river became the River Dore and the valley became the ‘Golden Valley’.

It's 9 miles long and 6 miles wide with no motorways, not even A grade roads.
http://www.vagavalley.co.uk/goldenvalley.htm
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UK

The location is the Golden Valley in Herefordshire, ‘Dore’ is derived from the welsh word ‘dwr’ meaning water, but the Norman’s confused it with the French d’or meaning Golden – so the river became the River Dore and the valley became the ‘Golden Valley’.

It's 9 miles long and 6 miles wide with no motorways, not even A grade roads.
http://www.vagavalley.co.uk/goldenvalley.htm
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In Herefordshire, UK.
On the border between England and Wales.

Steam engines at the waterworks in Hereford, Herefordshire (UK).
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A rocky spur leading up ontoThe Black Mountain which is on the Northern edge of The Brecon Beacons National Park in South Wales.
It's a narrow, undulating, rocky ridge - hence it's known as The Cats Back.

Back.

See http://www.spetchleygardens.co.uk/history.html for the history and origins of Spetchley.

Britain's largest monastic ruin, Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132 by 13 Benedictine monks seeking to return to a more pure form of their religious beliefs.
They later became Cistercian monks and wore the unbleached sheeps-wool habits which led to them being known as The White Monks.
http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk/estate/theabbey1d.html

wore the unbleached sheeps-wool habits which led to them being known as The White Monks.
http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk/estate/theabbey1d.html

The flooded Elan Valley.
Reservoirs created to supply water to the cities

Market town on the border between Wales and England. Famous as the second-hand books centre of the world and for it's annual Literary Festival at the end of May.

In and around Hereford UK, home of Mappa Mundi and the SAS

Radnorshire: 1800ft (550m) high, close to the English border and the Brecon Beacons. An extensive area of uninhabited uplands of moorland at Carneddau, Gilwern Hill, Gwaunceste Hill, Little Hill and Glascwm Hill.

Glascwm Hill.

Llanthony Priory in the Vale of Ewyas in Wales UK.
http://www.castlewales.com/llantho.html

See the Journal entry, same title.

Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. (pronounced "Glostershear")
http://www.enjoyengland.com/destinations/find/south-west/gloucestershire/tewkesbury.aspx
http://www.tewkesbury-medieval-fayre.org.uk/
History: Battle of Tewkesbury May 4th, 1471. Edward IV defeated the army of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, ending the brief restoration of Henry VI.
Henrys' son Edward, Prince of Wales, was killed in the battle.

History: Battle of Tewkesbury May 4th, 1471. Edward IV defeated the army of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, ending the brief restoration of Henry VI.
Henrys' son Edward, Prince of Wales, was killed in the battle.

The Begwns - a 1300 ft high rolling grassland common, just inside the Welsh border, close to Hay-On-Wye, Mid Wales.

The famous coastline area of South Wales (UK). These shots are from the coast along the south of the peninsular.