Beautiful Stowe and the landscaped gardens under the National Trust umbrella is what we all think when getting Stowe into one's sights, right?, wrong, think again. The walks here are across a vast area where you can rock up on seven consecutive days and never do the same walk.You can simply walk for 30mins or quite simply all day. It is one of my favourite places as the variety is the key. Open fields, narrow tracks, lakes, woodland, wild open Savannah with herds of wildebeests, ok, only joking but it is that good.
The house itself has a chequered history with the odd rogue owners.
There has been a house at Stowe since the 1500s but the house we all know now was created by Sir Richard Temple on the same site.There is a long drive that runs from Buckingham to Stowe that is still in use today but no longer goes through the Corinthian arch.
British nobility and royalty along with foreign nobility often stayed at the house and enjoyed the hospitality and beautiful gardens created by architect John Vandbrugh .In the 1740s Capability Brown was appointed head gardener.The 2nd Duke of Buckingham fell on hard times and dventually escaped his creditors with debts of £1.4m (£100m) today and after the death of the 3rd Duke, there was no successor and the house was left empty .In 1923 the house was sold and became Stowe school and has had some famous pupils notably Richard Branson.
Parking is a small issue now but not a significant problem as the old farm hardstanding is gated off due to some issues with travellers.Parking is parallel to the single road, Bycel road that runs off the A413 past Akeley wood school and past Stowe castle.
From here there are many options, you can loop the farm fields or head off past the playing fields past the golf course development and coming back through the Bourbon Tower field and past the obelisk looping back through the shooting field back to the car.This is pretty much mud free in the winter so is a welcome walk when you are up to neck in liquid mud elsewhere.There are sheep periodically in the Bourbon field so be aware but there are no suprises to hit you here.From the parking spot you have the option of heading straight up to the main bridleway and carrying on across the farm fields to Stowe corner at the circuit where there is a lovely little lake called black pit to wallow in.There is a real ale brewery here in the buildings and is open friday afternoons and is surprisingly called Black Pit Brewery.
The other walk from the car parking is to take the bridleway to the right which goes through the woods and eventually comes out at the black pit lake and brewery, theres a theme there and i can't say it enough that the beer particularly day tripper is pretty good stuff.
Summer walks at Stowe are wonderful especially eveinings with the sunsets and early morning winter walks are equally as wonderful.
There is one quirky thing here and that is where the track on the edge of the Bourbon field that runs parallel with the national trust track is like the can dos and can't dos. Bizarrely the tracks are literally feet apart but you have the luxury of paying £7.50 to walk with the dog on lead or do it for free on the public right of way with ginger lunatics barrelling around everywhere whilst getting sneered at.Every cloud.
There has been a house at Stowe since the 1500s but the house we all know now was created by Sir Richard Temple on the same site.There is a long drive that runs from Buckingham to Stowe that is still in use today but no longer goes through the Corinthian arch.
British nobility and royalty along with foreign nobility often stayed at the house and enjoyed the hospitality and beautiful gardens created by architect John Vandbrugh .In the 1740s Capability Brown was appointed head gardener.The 2nd Duke of Buckingham fell on hard times and dventually escaped his creditors with debts of £1.4m (£100m) today and after the death of the 3rd Duke, there was no successor and the house was left empty .In 1923 the house was sold and became Stowe school and has had some famous pupils notably Richard Branson.
Parking is a small issue now but not a significant problem as the old farm hardstanding is gated off due to some issues with travellers.Parking is parallel to the single road, Bycel road that runs off the A413 past Akeley wood school and past Stowe castle.
From here there are many options, you can loop the farm fields or head off past the playing fields past the golf course development and coming back through the Bourbon Tower field and past the obelisk looping back through the shooting field back to the car.This is pretty much mud free in the winter so is a welcome walk when you are up to neck in liquid mud elsewhere.There are sheep periodically in the Bourbon field so be aware but there are no suprises to hit you here.From the parking spot you have the option of heading straight up to the main bridleway and carrying on across the farm fields to Stowe corner at the circuit where there is a lovely little lake called black pit to wallow in.There is a real ale brewery here in the buildings and is open friday afternoons and is surprisingly called Black Pit Brewery.
The other walk from the car parking is to take the bridleway to the right which goes through the woods and eventually comes out at the black pit lake and brewery, theres a theme there and i can't say it enough that the beer particularly day tripper is pretty good stuff.
Summer walks at Stowe are wonderful especially eveinings with the sunsets and early morning winter walks are equally as wonderful.
There is one quirky thing here and that is where the track on the edge of the Bourbon field that runs parallel with the national trust track is like the can dos and can't dos. Bizarrely the tracks are literally feet apart but you have the luxury of paying £7.50 to walk with the dog on lead or do it for free on the public right of way with ginger lunatics barrelling around everywhere whilst getting sneered at.Every cloud.
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