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Awww, I noticed there wasn't an update today, but figured you took an extra day for your weekend trip! No worries.
Lacock is so cute! Very picturesque. I love the little place you had your scones!
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It's so wonderful to have a whole town preserved like this, and it's really paid off as a film set. I need to watch the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice again, as I recognize some of the buildings.
I would have never believed there is an old town that still exist that looks the same as it did years ago. That is a quaint little town with a sweet little bakery.
Those scones look delicious! While you can get scones in lots of places in the US, they haven't caught on to the cream part. The village really is quaint.
It's so wonderful to have a whole town preserved like this, and it's really paid off as a film set. I need to watch the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice again, as I recognize some of the buildings.
It just makes life so much easier for film crews to have everything preserved as if it was many years ago - no clever shooting angles to remove things from shot.
I would have never believed there is an old town that still exist that looks the same as it did years ago. That is a quaint little town with a sweet little bakery.
Those scones look delicious! While you can get scones in lots of places in the US, they haven't caught on to the cream part. The village really is quaint.
Scones without cream? Wow, they need to catch on to that quickly - it's not a proper scone without cream...
Wednesday 7 May – part seven: and you said there wouldn’t be a monument to filming here!
We were soon out on the country lanes again…
We were heading to Royal Wootton Bassett, and now I can fill you in the story of its new name. Until 2011, it was just humble Wootton Bassett. It got the Royal part of its name bestowed on it for the tributes that the residents paid during numerous military repatriation funerals. The bodies of British servicemen and women who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were repatriated to RAF Lyneham, which is about five miles away from the town. The bodies were then taken to Oxford and passed through the town.
In summer 2007, the local Royal British Legion became aware of this and started to show their respects to the soldiers as they passed through Wootton Bassett. This led to other people assembling along the route, and soon numbers passed over 1,000. Now the bodies were only being sent back to RAF Lyneham, while they did repairs at RAF Brize Norton, but when the repairs were completed, it was decided that they would still use RAF Lyneham, because they felt it would be insensitive to stop because of the support shown by the people of Wootton Bassett.
RAF Lyneham closed in September 2011, and that’s when the repatriations through the town stopped. When the announcement was made about the closure, the Prime Minister also announced that the town would be known as Royal Wootton Bassett. So there you go. Finally, after a couple of failed efforts, I managed to get a photo of the new town name…
There were still some of the old name…
It was a nice enough town…
We headed out again, with some ominous skies…
… and soon we were back into the countryside…
Our next stop was to be Aldbourne, and that’s where I need to give you some background on me. Now while you all know I’m a huge Disney fan and love my Eeyore, donkeys and cows, you may or may not know that I also absolutely adore Doctor Who, the British science fiction programme, that celebrated its 50th anniversary last November. Now just having been watching some Doctor Who on the Horror Channel (actually now I think of it, that start to the trip report was probably a bit of a giveaway on this front… ), I couldn’t believe it when I discovered Aldbourne was just up the road from us.
It featured in a Jon Pertwee story, The Daemons, which is one of my favourites, and in fact I was watching it just before we left. Aldbourne stars as the village the story is set in, with lots of scene involving the local church, village green and pub, so I wanted to visit it and see what it looked like in reality.
As we came into the village, I didn’t see anything I recognised…
… then I spotted the church.
We drove around a bit trying to find the village green, then we hit on this road, with this pub in it – and look what’s outside it!
Now this was classic, as Mark was only saying to me on the way over here that they wouldn’t have a monument to filming. Well, apparently they did!
Then we found the village green. I couldn’t believe how small it was – and it was the same one, as I recognised the buildings around it, but my goodness, they must’ve been creative with their filming angles to make it look that big on screen!
That done, we headed back to Littlecote House…
… and back to our room for some well earned rest and a chance for me to catch up on the trip report.
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That is a quaint little town with a sweet
little bakery.
Wow, they need to catch on to that quickly - it's not a proper scone without cream... 
Now just having been watching some Doctor Who on the Horror Channel (actually now I think of it, that start to the trip report was probably a bit of a giveaway on this front… 
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