Croome Park

After a quiet night on the Severn we headed for Croome Park near Worcester on our way south. It's a strange NT place being a mix of RAF museum and country estate. The park was used to develop much of our WW2 airborne radar capabilities and still has the remains of a 2000yd runway. Most of the RAF Dufford buildings have disappeared now except for  the hospital which is converted to a 40's style canteen. The house was the first stately home to be landscaped by Laurence Capability Brown for the then trendy 6th Earl of Coventry and is now being restored  by the National  Trust. It was a good walk in the hot sun, passing the rotunda on the way to the house so the Lipton Tea samples from Sunday Foodies show came in very useful. We had sandwiches and crisps in the basement coffee shop before walking back up the hill to the car park.
We stopped at a farm shop near Upton on Severn for some massive pork chops, strawberries and chicken for the BBQ later. The GPS took us over the top of the Malvern Hills to the CCC site at Hereford  for a two night stay to do some fishing.