Castle & Gardens of Mid Wales

This morning your door-to-door transport will pick you up and bring you to our coach. Once on board we drive to Oswestry. We have time here to peruse and purchase lunch before we continue to the Spa town of Llandrindod Wells and the family owned 4 AA Star Metropole Hotel and Spa. This elegant hotel has a spacious swimming pool in a Victorian style conservatory.

A full day today as we travel north to Welshpool and the spectacular National Trust property of Powis Castle. The world-famous garden, overhung with clipped yews, shelters rare and tender plants. Laid out under the influence of Italian and French styles. The castle, originally built circa 1200, began life as a medieval fortress. Our return to our hotel will include a stop at Coed-y-Dinas, set in the Severn Valley just south of Welshpool, it was originally the ‘Home Farm’ for Powis Castle.

A half day with the afternoon set aside for you to enjoy the splendour of Llandrindod Wells with its lovely garden walks and spectacular Victorian lake. In the morning after breakfast, we have a short drive towards the charming town of Hay-on-Wye, known as the “Town of Books.” Explore the many independent bookshops and browse the vast collections of literature on offer. Take a walk along the River Wye and visit the ruins of Hay Castle.

A full day today. We depart after breakfast and tour across the Cambrian Mountains to the National Trust property of Llanerchaeron via the picturesque Elan Valley. Enjoy the scenery of the fabulous dams of the Elan Valley and its wonderful visitor centre and café. Our drive will then take us via Devils Bridge to Llanerchaeron and the 18th-century Welsh gentry estate – with house, walled gardens and Home Farm. The villa, designed in the 1790s. It has its own service courtyard with dairy, laundry, brewery, salting house, walled kitchen gardens and is a working organic farm with Welsh black cattle, Llanwenog sheep and rare Welsh pigs.

Following a hearty Welsh breakfast, we will return home calling in at the market town of Leominster. It is located in beautiful north Herefordshire, at the heart of the black and white villages. After suitable time, we continue north to our home areas where your door-to-door service will be waiting to take you back to your doorsteps.