 Hello, thank you for joining me. This is part three of my National Trust passport videos So in the first and second video, I talked you through my first and second passports told you a bit about every property in there In this one, we're going to go through my third passport. So you can see the design has changed a bit since then and I've filled up five so far. My sixth one isn't finished and the pink one is my girlfriend So just to show you the variety of passports or how they've changed for the years rather. So my third property So let's have a look Where did where did I go? So it starts in 2002. The first property is Snow's Hill Manor Now Snow's Hill Manor I really would love to go back to is it's possibly one of the most fascinating properties I've been to. The bloke who lived there, he collected everything. I want to say everything. I mean everything You know everything literally everything The loft was full of bikes there must have been over a hundred bikes and imagine taking a hundred bikes up the stairs to the loft It was quite fascinating There were grandfather clocks in every room and everyone of them was set to a different time So the idea was if you go in if you step foot if you step foot in Snow's Hill Manor for at least ten minutes You're going to hear a clock chime and There was stuff from all around the world. It was amazing now There's an interesting story with Snow's Hill Manor and model villages now Most people Would be right to say well, you would be right to say Beckinscott model village is the oldest model village It is the oldest model village existing It's not the first one the first one village was run was built by this gentleman It was over in Hampstead in London now when I went there They had some of the houses from that model village displayed outside in the garden But what's happening since then a group of people decided to recreate that one village complete with a railway So at some point we're gonna have to go there not only to see Snow's Hill Manor but to see this model village So best of luck to them with tracing that model village. I'm really going to look forward to seeing that develop So that's Snow's Hill Manor in the Cotswolds Staying in the Cotswolds. We've got Hinton. I'm sorry. It's Cote Manor Garden It's it was a it's a garden designed by an American I believe and it's like lots of different rooms So you kind of step from it's like walking around the house, but you're outside So you step from one room to another but it's one garden to another So each garden is perhaps surrounded by a hedge or a wall and as you step into the next one you're in a different theme of garden So quite a fascinating place. Like I said in the last two videos Some of them I have made Henry's adventures at but the vast majority of them I haven't And I just love to go to them all again and make videos and then of course go to them I haven't been to and also make videos and of course fill up my passport So where we do whether I go next Sutton House in Hackney in London Quite a fascinating house very built up area. They've since opened a scrap yard I believe it on what I really should go back and see that a lot. I'll be fascinated to see that So that's Sutton House next one in Oxfordshire Grey's Court Grey's Court and So it's up near Henley on Thames. I remember within the grounds. There's ruins of an earlier house So I'm sure that would make great Henry's Adventure video and I think from the earlier house to the tower And you can possibly go climb up the tower. So that's Grey's Court and it's also got quite a fascinating wider estate Where's the next one? 2003 now Oxford Hall. Now Oxford Hall really is quite fascinating It's where I first ever saw a priest hole It says priest holes in Oxford Court. It's completely moted and at the front It's got very tall towers. You can go up on the roof. I remember doing a big state walk Next to it was the parish church was half-ruined because the tower had collapsed like that and Deremonished most of the nave But what was left of the nave has been rebuilt into a small church and it has no tower So where did I go to next? Wimple Hall and Home Farm Wimple Hall is a very vast property We were stopping there on the way back from a holiday in Norfolk I remember being a bit disappointed that we didn't stay that long. I was still quite young at the time He's got a home farm somewhere. By the time we looked at all the animals been around the house and looked at the gardens There simply wasn't time to do the estate walk but for me that was frustrating because I remember from the house You looked across quite a way away. It was a folly, a ruined folly So basically a castle built as a ruin and I really wanted to see it So I'm gonna have to go back and do that Now the next one's a bit of an interesting one Rather than a stamp, I've got a ticket. It's the manor house in Princess Rizbra in Buckinship Princess Rizbra, most of you who watch my channel know me for railways, children Princess Rizbra, and it is the same town You do have to visit this one by appointment. So you have you I'm not sure how it works. I used to rock to write to them and request to visit basically So that's the manor house in Princess Rizbra and it's opposite the church in Princess Rizbra and It's also opposite the house where Amy Johnson lived the first female airplane pilot As I mentioned property Hatchelon's Park Hatchelon's Park is in Surrey. It's Quite a vast estate. I've been there a couple of times if you do the wider estate We can actually walk right down to one of the railway lines Southern Region Railway lines in Surrey. So it's quite quite fascinating property Croft Castle up in Herefordshire. Now, that's an interesting one. It's So you've got the property. I'm trying to think what I remember There's a church out the front gardens out the back and we did a wider estate walk Now our next one is Coton Court I remember making the joke when I went there I was like we'd better wear our coats because we're going to Coton Court So Coton Court Interesting property as they all are. It's got two churches. I think one's Protestant ones Catholic They're literally next door to each other within the estate and there's river flowing through the estate So again, very nice property It's one you can see quite clearly if you drive past it's that I remember driving to Stratford, Monaghan once And you drove past and you've got a perfect view of it from the road My next one going back down to Surrey, Holston Lacy That is That's down in Surrey. It's a I think it's a Georgian era to house on but you know exploring the gardens as we did and The wider estate are being quite fascinated how a road goes up the estate and from one garden You go over a bridge over a public road I believe might just be in a farm track, but basically somewhere outside It was a public right way outside of the paved area of National Trust over a bridge into another garden So that was Poles and Lacy This one's a funny one shoot Barton. I don't know too much, but it was a property We visited in down in Devon quite a small one Don't remember a lot about it really and my next one do remember it on the same day I remember this one bit more distinctly is Longwood meeting house It's an old I think it's a Baptist chapel But I do remember that you just sort of go there kind of a look a bit like going in any church It just happens to be National Trust My next one is Kingston Lacy It's about Poles and Lacy now. We have Kings and Lacy Kings and Lacy's down in Dorset down near Wimbledon, Minster I'm trying to think I remember a room one thing I remember this one It was good was that you could actually you went on every floor of the house even up into the loft Which is quite unusual for National Trust properties some of them you only even go on the ground floor But this one I think you went up there was our third and possibly even a floor floor definitely go up into the loft Our next one is Lodge Park That's in the Cops Wells. We weren't supposed to go there that day We were going on holiday to Wales. We got stuck in a massive traffic jam on the motorway We were hoping to aim a bit further away from home And it's kind of getting time, you know, we need to stop somewhere for lunch We ended up going to Lodge Park. Now Lodge Park, we didn't do a walk or anything there But what you see is basically a grandstand for one of the sports they used to play So it's a part of small building, but you stand on the roof and watch there's one racing sports I wouldn't like to say because I might get it wrong, but that's what Lodge Park is Our next one is Barrington Hall in Herefordshire It's only a few days later. So we must have been going I remember we were going on holiday to Wales up near What's nearest town near? Knighton, which is on the English Welsh border So we drove down Staying in England and to Barrington Hall You can't actually see this property if you get a train from on the Welsh marches line And you do catch a good thing to look out at the right time So Barrington Hall another property quite a big estate when I'm doing the state walk Our next one come to his lower Brockhampton There's the whole Brockhampton estate There's There is one big stately home which you can't go to the one you go to is a Tudor one down at the bottom of the hill And I believe it's moted and there's a ruined church on the other side the most that's quite a fascinating one It's one of these vast ones But the actual house you see is the Tudor house rather than the main house My next one is Montpeasant House In the Cathedral close in Salisbury. So it's an urban one I think it did have a garden out the back, but that day I don't know too much about national trust property, but I distinctly remember the most exciting thing was we went up the cathedral at Salisbury, but we went up the town of Salisbury Cathedral So I do distinctly remember that it just went on forever You just going up steps, of course, it's 404 feet high It's all this cathedral spiral in the UK. You don't have to go to the top of the spiral You go to the base of the spiral, but it's Must be the highest I've been up in a church Although I have been up-clone in the cathedral since I might have gone up higher, but anyway This video is not about cathedrals Now this next one is an interesting one. It's called Phillips House and Dinten Park So it's Dinten Park But the house is called Phillips House And we stayed nearby. So we'd actually go for each evening of this holiday We'd go for a walk around the estate. Now the actual house There's a model of it at Beckinscott model village It's not meant to be, but the country club at Beckinscott model village They just took this and decided to build model of it. So if you go to Beckinscott model village, you'll see Phillips House Our next property is Runny Mead Runny Mead is near Windsor. It's on the River Thames It's quite well known. It's the most famous point. It's where the Magna Carta was signed It's got some other fascinating things about it. There's a piece of land If you go to it, you're in America. It's where the Jive Kennedy Memorial is So we gave a few acres to America so you can actually it's the one place in the UK You can actually go to America. There's also the gatehouses to Runny Mead as designed by Edwin Luchens Who I mentioned in an earlier passport also designed Castle Drogo Up on the hill above Runny Mead is the Air Forces Memorial So you can go see the Air Forces Memorial It's not actually National Trust, but you could walk up there from Runny Mead and you get if you go on the roof Of it, which you can do, you get brilliant views over West London Basically, where's our next one? Standon Standon, he's also near the Bluebell Railway. I mentioned earlier Sheffield Park It's not quite so near, but I'm walking around the grounds of standon. You could hear steam trains on the Bluebell Railway It's an Arts and Crafts house. It's called Lovely Gardens So it's a different era to some of the others There's the Arts and Crafts ones I tend to have been to a bit later on they tend to come up in the later passports So there will be more of them to come soon This one's quite interesting one. It's Shaw's Corner It's in Hartfordshire. It's where George Bernard Shaw lived I believe it's the only National Trust property where the Person who lived there won an Oscar because on the whole The National Trust, the people who owned the National Trust properties for the National Trust Weren't those sort of people. But yeah, George Bernard Shaw, he's got an Oscar His house feels quite normal, but just like a normal, a big house with a big garden It's not a state-by-home as such, but it's it's a different era. It's fascinating The village of Aeops and Lawrence is also very exciting. Another place at Chakur and do Henry's adventures There's some interesting churches and stuff there. So perhaps one day we'll go there again On the next one up to the house That's near Boundary up in Oxfordshire I can't remember. It's been on the edge of a ridge So the house is up high you get good views and the gardens really drop quite steeply down the hill My next one is Erdick in Wales It's often said to be one of the best estates ever because it's just it's It's quite Lots of things have happened there over the years Parts of the estate. I think there's mining subsidence So it has been a bit there's been a few problems there But you know, it's all nicely restored and you can do some really very exciting walks when I went there I remember they have horses not plowing the lawn mowing the lawn these giant lawn mowers powered by horses So they sometimes do those demonstrations. They also have a steam fire engine in steam It's the first time I've ever seen one in steam and it's staying in the same area Chirk Castle I've done a video at Chirk a couple of years ago. I haven't looked at the link on screen now That video talks about the aqueduct and the viaduct and the tunnel on the canal But on the hill above there is Chirk Castle. So it's a castle that's become a stately home again It's got lovely gardens and it's got a good estate walk So I wouldn't suggest you perhaps went there by train It might be a little bit far from the railway station, but you know, it's interesting But if you do go to Chirk Castle, do park in the village on your way back and walk over the viaduct The aqueduct rather and through the tunnel if you fancy walking in the dark for a call from Mark But just two more on this one. Claydon House It's up in Buckinghamshire, North Bucks Interestingly, you'll soon be able to see the railway line from Claydon House because the railway line from Oxford to Bletchley is being reopened So you'll get a good view of that from Claydon House Claydon House is quite fascinating because only a third of what it once was the house is one wing And then there'd have been a grand sort of hall and then an identical wing on the other side and the rest of it was Demolished unfortunately because the window tax so it's not even Now our final one this one You can't get anymore. It's a stamp that doesn't exist. It's the National Trust shop in Stratford-upon-Avon What the National Trust used to do they don't seem to do anymore They have they'd have shop quite a lot of shops at naturally touristy towns and cities places like York and Canterbury and Wales Stratford-upon-Avon and you go into the shop And the shop really is just a shop that sells the stuff you'd expect at one of the estates, but There was just no house. It's just a simply a high street shop on the street But let's have a stamp now they've closed this shop. So you can't get this down anymore. So I'm glad I got it So that's my final stamp in this passport the National Trust shop at Stratford-upon-Avon. So hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching Got two more to come go through my next two passports So, you know go and visit them by yourself a passport see if you can catch me up Maybe you're way ahead of me Maybe you've been to you know, maybe you're on your 10th passport if you are I'd love to hear for you What what's the most passports anyone's ever filled up? I'd be very interested to know. So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment. Thank you very much. Goodbye