Outings
Where - Braywick Road, Maidenhead
Outings start from the coach pick-up point at the Braywick Road lay-by, Maidenhead. Please check individual starting times on the booking form. Car parking for the outings is available in the public car park next to the Golf Driving Range. There is no charge to park on Saturday or Sunday.
Do not forget to bring your current National Trust membership card.
Stow-on the Wold and Chastleton NT, Glos
When: Sunday 14th September 2025 - Coach LEAVES at 9am
Where: At Braywick Road, Maidenhead
Trip to: Stow-on the Wold and Chastleton NT, Glos
Booking Your Place: Please call Maggie Kearney - 01628 637160
A chance to wander around Stow-on the Wold. See the Yew Tree door at St David’s Church with the embedded boot scraper, the Cotswold stone lined streets and visit Huffkins, one of the many tea rooms.
Chastleton House
A rare gem of a Jacobean country house. A Grade I listed building, built between 1607 and 1612 by a prosperous wool merchant, Walter Jones, as an impressive statement of his wealth and power. Owned by the same, increasingly impoverished, family - until 1991, the house remained essentially unchanged for nearly 400 years as the interiors and contents gradually succumbed to the ravages of time. With virtually no intrusion from the 21st century, this fascinating place exudes an informal and timeless atmosphere in a gloriously unspoilt setting. With no shop or tea-room, one can imagine having stepped back in time.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshire-berkshire/chastleton
Coach trip to Westonbirt, the National Arboretum
When: Sunday 2nd November 2025 - Coach LEAVES at 9am
Where: At Braywick Road, Maidenhead
Trip to: Coach trip to Westonbirt, the National Arboretum
Booking Your Place: Please call Maggie Kearney - 01628 637160
Home to 2,500 different species from the far corners of the globe and 5 national tree collections. Westonbirt is the perfect place for you to escape, relax or have an adventure! Take a journey up into the canopy on the STIHL Tree Top Walkway, stop by the café for a tasty treat or see if you can spot the Gruffalo!
Coach trip (NT) Packwood House & Baddesley Clinton
When: Sunday 30th November 2025 - Coach LEAVES at 9am
Where: At Braywick Road, Maidenhead
Trip to: Coach trip (NT) Packwood House & Baddesley Clinton
Booking Your Place: Please call Maggie Kearney - 01628 637160
Packwood House
A much-restored Tudor house, park and garden with notable topiary. Surrounded by beautiful gardens, Packwood House was described by a visitor in the 1930s as “a house to dream of, and a garden to dream in”. Restored in the early 20th century by Graham Baron Ash.
Baddesley Clinton
The story of the moated house and estate is one of survival; as a safe house for Catholic priests; through the Civil War and its aftermath, the Commonwealth; and turbulent finances. The home of the Ferrers family for 500 years. In the 19th century Baddesley became a haven for four friends known as “The Quartet”. Edward Heneage Dering was an English novelist of the Victorian era. In 1859 Dering married fellow author Lady Georgiana Chatterton. The couple lived at Baddesley with the niece of Georgiana, Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen and her husband Marmion Edward Ferrers. While living there, they paid for improvements to the house and paid off mortgages taken out on the estate. Dering died there in 1892 and much of his personal library, along with those of his two wives, remains in the house today. The collections include several portraits of Dering painted by Rebecca Dering, including "The Philosopher's Morning Walk".