It's a handsomem red brick building. I enjoyed the simple pleasures of a cup of tea and a good book.
The gardens and grounds are small but attractive. If you think all birding is rush here tick rush there tick then think again I spent a good half hour watching Spotted Flycatchers hunting flies and feeding a youngster.
The National Trust have teamed up with the National Portrait Gallery so there are lots of paintings. There's an exhibition, including hands on, on the top floor.
Anyway I realised I was near a church I hadn't ticked ! So off to Nun Monkton a fragment of a Benedictine Nunnery. The village is real picture postcard stuff with a duck pond and HUGE maypole.
St Mary (603) is very fine. It was much restored by the Victorians and is a bit dark.
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It's Benningborough - and it's another favourite of mine. I was going to do some room stewarding there but it was just that little bit too far for a weekly trip.
You have to sleep in a room that doubles up as an education space for working hols too, although I am tempted to give it a try some time
whoops I knew that !!
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