..... home. Left Barnstaple this morning & now heading eastwards. Now in Yeovil calling in on Montacute house on the way for our first Devon Cream Tea (which goes on first, I can never recall). Montacute was built in 1601 in Liz 1's time. Lots of original features but when it was passed to the NT in 1930 all the interior had been sold off. The NT advertised for suitable stuff & several wealthy folk obliged. It was built by Sir Edward Phelips, who was a courtier for Elizabeth I, speaker of the House of Commons and a lawyer involved in the prosecution of Gut Foulkes. He invented the corridor when he bought the front of another stately home & installed it on the front of his house.
Another beautiful garden with yellow flowered tree that really attracted the bees. There were so many that the buzzing was loud. Anyone know what the tree is?
Had a nice dinner in the Manor.
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