Formerly Updown Cottage but now helping The Angel Sherston

Name: Formerly Updown Cottage but now helping The Angel Sherston
Address: High Street, Malmesbury, SN160LF, GB
Telephone: +447710307202

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The cottage is permanently closed but we now help with the running of our daughter's Café with Rooms A cosily sophisticated bolthole from everyday life.

Updown is equally suitable for couples craving a romantic retreat to groups of family and friends looking to share time away together. At cooler times, snuggle on the lushly generous sofas by the woodburning stove....in warmer weather, while away the afternoon on the sheltered terrace, drinking in the views. At any time, resurrect long forgotten musical abilities on the baby grand piano or spend l

ong evenings laughing, feasting & imbibing around the antique refectory table. The many popular wedding venues in the area (Larmer Tree Gardens, The Hotel Grosvenor, Springhead) make the cottage a romantic base for bridal parties & honeymoons. Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset offer a wealth of superb local produce to enjoy either in the cottage, (equipped for dining for 12 guests - private chef may be arranged) or in the many recommended cafes, restaurants, delis and pubs. Shaftesbury is a small town with over a thousand years of history, set 700 feet up at the meeting of three counties. The independent shops, market stalls, galleries, museums, craft centres, pubs and eating places thrive against the background of such character. Gold Hill featured in Ridley Scott's 1970s Hovis 'Boy on a Bicycle' advert and numerous films from 'Far from the Madding Crowd' to the 2009 short films 'Taxi Driver' and 'Gold Hill' shot in Updown Cottage by Zeitgeist Industries. The cottage is the perfect base for exploring castles, abbeys, cathedrals, music festivals, Stonehenge, stately homes, the Jurassic coast, walks, bike rides, pony trekking, golf......or simply kicking back and relaxing!

11/08/2024

Trelowarren tones and misty Cornish mornings.

10/08/2024

Porthleven in August...... with ubiquitous children on cannon photo.

03/07/2024

Happy 29 years of life and 5 days of new daddyhood to Sam!
What a wonderful year it's been!

20/06/2024

How sad not to be able to capture the scent but the sheer abundance of flowers against a blue sky is still breathtaking.

25/05/2024

The manor house of Trelowarren on the Lizard in Cornwall now provides 2 bedrooms on a B&B basis: The King's room (apparently every manor house in Cornwall has a room where Charles I was reputed to have stayed!) and The Bluebird room which is from a suite of rooms re-designed for the visit of Queen Victoria in the mid 19th Century. The windows remain as they were before the redesign.
The drive to Tremayne Quay, the boathouse, and Tremayne Quay, were also built for the visit but unfortunately, the weather was too rough for the Queen to land and in the late 20th Century the rooms fell into disrepair.

I've created a highlight of our stay on instagram.

The house dates from the C15th & is being renovated gradually by the Vyvyan family who have resided here for 600 years.

The estate is run on entirely ecological lines so don't expect pristine grounds beyond the immediate lawns - great pride is taken in the Wilderness which encourages such diversity of wildlife.
Equally you'll find quirky plumbing, a creaky 4 poster & the house to yourselves - absolute perfection in our eyes!

You can easily find trelowarren.com by searching although let's keep it secret!

11/05/2024

I was sorting through a box today when I came across this photo which was in a broken frame in Updown Cottage when we moved in.
Wouldn't it be lovely to identify the girl and when it was taken?
We bought the cottage on Gold Hill from the late & much missed Gordon Haskell in 2006.
Any Dorset people have any ideas?!

13/04/2024

Colours of Cornwall last weekend.
1. Unexpectedly Tuscan tones in a Lizard farmyard.
2. Goonhilly Downs satellite dishes. The first dish, the 85 feet diameter 'Arthur', sent the first live television signal between 2 continents in July 1962.
3. Our favourite roads, imaginatively christened 'grass in the middle of road' roads when your wingmirrors brush the greenery on either side.
4. The aesthetic bridge at Poltesco Cove which is beautifully cared for by the . Let's hope they also preserve Mullion Cove which is rapidly deteriorating.
5. Prettily presented & absolutely delicious smoked mackerel paté lunch at Holy Mackerel Café at Helford.
6. Thatched roofs in Helford by The Shipwrights Arms, arguably the most perfectly positioned pub in the world?
7. Tree tunnel - exciting since childhood.
8. Stormy seas at Lizard Point.
9. The oft-photo'd door in St Ives.
10. Helford doorway.....as I snapped a lady emerged and told me that 'it wasn't famous'......it is for me.....almost 60 years of coverting this Jane Austin-style house!

12/04/2024

The Grade 2 listed Nabisco Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn Garden City. The complex was designed by Louis de Soissons in 1926 to encourage the American company to set up base in the town. It closed in 2008 & its future has been the subject of discussion ever since.
Welwyn Garden City was established by Ebenezer Howard in 1920 as a planned town to provide for both industry and pleasant living conditions.
Visits to John Lewis were always accompanied by the malty smell of cereals wafting across the railway tracks which lay between the factory and the town centre. These days I tend to get a little closer as Aldi stands across the road! No smells but a better view of C20th industry which I hope will be repurposed and saved from dereliction.

27/02/2024

On Sunday we lunched at the beautiful , situated in the old stable yard, buried deep in the heart of the Trelowarren estate in Cornwall. I've visited the estate for many, many years but Louise & Tim are the most welcoming & generous hosts who have created the perfect restaurant & café.
(Yes you do get everything on that menu so plan to stay all afternoon 😉).
Beautiful local food sometimes with Danish influences, scrumply linen, handpainted & written menus, generous touches, original local art, outstandingly lovely staff (how do they find them?!), blazing fires & a warm relaxed atmosphere!

For information, a Sarah Bernhart is a cookie named after a French actress who visited Copenhagen in 1883 and praised the delicious Danish chocolates. Years later, in 1911, pastry chef Johannes Steen named the Sarah Bernhardt cookies after the actress. They have an almond cookie base, topped with a chocolate cream filling and dipped in chocolate.

25/02/2024

In January we celebrated Simon's significant birthday at The Ugly Butterfly in Carbis Bay....the food & service we experienced were second to none but on a winter's evening, our view was obviously somewhat limited to ourselves (see final photo!).
Yesterday we returned for lunchtime bar snacks and were treated to the same wonderful service & 'snacks' that we experienced in January (but with rather different views including a rainbow which moved across the bay throughout our visit in a rather obliging fashion!).
Afternoon tea looked rather good too!
Just a heads up that you can have the whole Ugly Butterfly experience whether you order a simple cup of tea or the whole tasting menu.

And FYI the quirky name is explained by "There is no such thing as an Ugly Butterfly, in the same way that – with skilled people – there is no such thing as food waste!"

23/02/2024

The fascinating C13th church of St Mellanus in Mullion with its irresistibly tactile carved oak pews, reputed to be from wood from the ancient Goonhilly forest (although the forest is said to have disappeared by the C11th).
The restored full width rood screen doesn't find favour with Simon Jenkins and others as it cuts off the three altars from the congregation but I loved it for preserving the atmosphere of the sanctuary. After all, the Reformation was the vandal!

20/02/2024

A particularly beautiful flat white from Sam this morning.

Address

High Street
Malmesbury
SN160LF

Telephone

+447710307202

Website

http://www.angel-sherston.co.uk/

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