One of my favorite places on my trip was wandering the grounds of Lord Byron’s estate, Newstead Abbey. It was amazing! The grounds are very extensive but also there’s a real sense of peace there. I would love to live on the grounds and wander around with my laptop to write in various places of the estate. I’m so glad my friend,
author Liz Babbs, took me here.
The grounds aren’t as extensive as Chatsworth, but Newstead Abbey had by far my favorite grounds and gardens on my trip.
I couldn’t go inside the abbey because the house wasn’t open on the day I visited--it’s only open one day a week to visitors. I’d love to go back to England to go inside the abbey, too, and also revisit the grounds. There’s a little information about
Newstead Abbey here on wikipedia and here’s
the official website of Newstead Abbey, which is owned by the city of Nottingham.
If I ever become a famous New York Times bestselling author, I am totally buying a flat or condo on the Newstead Abbey grounds!
I posted pictures with comments on Facebook, which you should be able to see even if you don’t have a Facebook account.
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| This is a cute cafe on the grounds. |
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| These are peacocks on the grounds who hang out at the cafe. |
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| Here is the backside of the house. |
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| This gate leads to a tiny walled yard that’s absolutely adorable! It was one of my favorite spots on the grounds. It’s called the French Garden, although there aren’t many plants in it, and it doesn’t look like other French Gardens I’ve seen. |
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| This is the Stew Pond. |
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| This is the pond in the Great Garden. |
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| This is called the Spanish Garden, although I think it looks more like a French Garden. |
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| This is the monumnet to Byron’s dog, Boatswain. |
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| This is inside the Small Walled Garden from a vantage point on the wall overlooking it. |
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| Another view of the Stew Pond |
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| This is the Rose Garden |
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| This is an adorable cottage built into the corner of the wall of the Rose Garden. I think that they renovated it and it’s now available to reserve to stay there. |
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| I believe this is the Japanese Garden. |
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| I set a key emotional scene in Prelude for a Lord here in this spot. |
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| I set another scene in Prelude for a Lord in this spot. |
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| Hello again! |
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