Stonehenge Travel Forum

Hi everyone,
We are visiting London in early September and plan to hire a car and drive to Bath and Stonehenge, we have looked up the Village of Lacock and it looks beautiful, can anyone tell me if there is anywhere to stay in the village overnight as I think it was be a great experience. Thank you for your help. Regards, Michele

http://www.oldrectorylacock.co.uk/

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/bnbtowns.cfm?town=Lacock&county=2#bnb

http://lacock.2day.ws/lacock/section/AccommodationinandaroundLacock/

should help.

Thank you, it did indeed help. I have found several places to stay, the old rectory look promising. After we leave Lacock we are heading for the ferry to Ireland from Holyhead, it appears to be about a 4 hour drive, as we have kids on board I'm thinking another stopover might be the go, any suggestions for somewhere interesting to stay on the way?
regards, Michele

Whatever you do, don't miss Avebury - equally impressive to Stonehenge and the children can roll down the grassy mounds and actually touch the stones. Not far from Lacock nor Stonehenge when you've got a car.

Will you drive to Holyhead according to the route suggested on viamichelin.com ?

In that case you can make a detour just south of Birmingham and go for Warwick with its huge medieval castle which children love and which has a maojor medieval exhibition and activities as it has played a big part in English history:

http://www.warwick-castle.co.uk

Or, you can drive a bit further north so you end up "half way" and stop at Telford where you have Ironbridge close by - home of the Industrial revolution in the world and full of museums (10 to be precise) for all ages:

http://www.ironbridge.co.uk/

You should allow more than 4 hours drive to Holyhead. It's not motorway, roads in Wales (even the major ones) can be narrow and winding and it's too easy to get stuck behind a tractor/caravan etc. The AA routeplanner suggests 4hours 43 minutes...with children, allow about 6-7 hours (you will definitely need to stop (for your own sanity, if nothing else), and there are lots of nice places to do so on the way).

The AA site will, btw, give you a printable route showing traffic/accident blackspots, speed cameras etc so is well worth using.

http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp?database=B
Be warned that the M5/M6 section can be an absolute nightmare at busy times (or if there is an accident) so you really must allow plenty of time.

As for places to stay, Warwick would be good (castle brilliant for kids, albeit not cheap, town itself also v nice....see my pages). Or stay in Wales itself, somewhere like Caernarfon (also with excellent castle), Llanberis (Snowdon/lake/castle/mountain railway) or Llangollen (nice town, river, castles nearby).

I would recommend Chester - this is a wonderful town missed by many overseas visitors. There are some good VT pages on Chester.

Entirely agree about Chester, but hadn't thought about it as it requires going further north initially (Holyhead route from Lacock goes via M5/M6/M54/A5; Chester would require continuing up the M6 then taking the A55 to Holyhead).

Thank you so much everyone for all your excellent suggestions, I now have a lot more research to do! I must say in a seven week world trip I am now looking forward to this leg of it immensely. We are an Australian family and as such have virtually no history in our country so so see the wealth of history in your country will be amazing. Thank you all once again.
regards, Michele.

Then Warwick would be gobsmacking to you! Check out the VT pages... :)

I too agree on Chester but equally thought it too "out of the way". Lovely city.

Oh, and Chester in fact has one of Britain's most famous zoos...