Shugborough Hall

Shall we stay or go? This is a beautiful place but our water level was getting low and our toilet cassette level was getting high! A compromise. We turned around and went back up to Great Haywood Junction where the Anglo Welsh hire company has an Elsan facility and a water tap. We did the business. This movement got us closer to the National Trust property Shugborough Hall that we planned to visit.
In order to get to the entrance to the grounds we had to cross on foot a Pack Horse bridge named Essex bridge that spans the river Sow that joins the Trent.

Shugborough Hall is the ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield and is a magnificent building. It is set in acres of immaculate grounds that have remained largely in tact since 1693.

 

Shepherds Monument

The Chinese House

Wots going on?

Spinning local wool

Blacksmith

 

There is also a walled garden that has been restored to its former glory.
Feeling a bit walked off our feet, we caught the train shuttle back. All in all a very good £3.50s worth!
We said a fond farewell to Tixall Wide and motored on for a few miles in order to put some charge back into the batteries.