Petworth House

The french style house

Henley on Thames looked to be about half way on our journey home and as we have never been before we booked into Henley Four Oaks CC site. On the way we passed Petworth House, a NT property, at around lunch time so we stopped in the wooded car park to make a sandwich and a drink. It looked worth a short visit so having listened to the introductory talk and we had a look round. The main rooms are just full of paintings by famous artists, lots of Van Dyke, so unless you are an art buff it was rather wasted. The old kitchens linked to the house by an underground service tunnel were much more interesting. There were some spectacular azaleas in the grounds.

It took longer than I expected to get around London in the rush hour so we did not arrive at Henley until around 7o'clock, but had a nice sunny pitch non-the-less.