{"id":1525,"date":"2016-06-29T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:01:38","slug":"cotswolds-2016-day-6-rain-more-rain-and-the-national-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Cotswolds, 2016 – Day 6, Rain, more rain and the National Trust…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today it was raining in Little England and Winter Is Here. In fact, it didn’t just rain, it p******* down. All day and maybe everyday.<\/p>\n

That’s presumably why we have the National Trust and all its old buildings. For a small annual fee, our retirees can trudge around these relics keeping warm and dry.<\/p>\n

Our surprise then to discover that the National Trust also owns perhaps one of the most traditional pubs in the land. The Fleece Inn at Bretforton.<\/p>\n

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The Fleece Inn, Bretforton…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Fleece Inn is a half-timbered medieval farmhouse which originally sheltered a farmer and his stock.<\/p>\n

The Inn was first licensed in 1848. Fully restored to its former glory, with witches circles and precious pewter collection, it has developed a reputation for traditional folk music, morris dancing and asparagus.<\/p>\n

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Fleece Inn Log Fire (late Jun 2016)…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The selection of Real Ales is formidable and in the depths of Winter (well, the summer solstice was over a week ago), tis nice to see a roaring log fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today it was raining in Little England and Winter Is Here. In fact, it didn’t just rain, it p******* down. All day and maybe everyday. That’s presumably why we have the National Trust and all its old buildings. For a small annual fee, our retirees can trudge around these relics keeping warm and dry. Our … Continue reading Cotswolds, 2016 – Day 6, Rain, more rain and the National Trust…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotswolds-and-peak-district","category-2016-little-england"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}