User:Craigy144/Belvoir

28 July 2008 - Brief trip to Grantham, Lincolnshire. Grimsthorpe and Belton were closed, but I managed a trip to Belvoir :-) However tempted I was, no photographs are allowed of the inside.

Image:Belvoir1.jpg|The south west facade from the driveway (1). Image:Belvoir2.jpg|The south west facade from the driveway (avec some pink shirt bloke). Image:Belvoir3.jpg|The south west facade from the driveway (2). Image:Belvoir4.jpg|The south west facade from the rose garden (1). Image:Belvoir5.jpg|The south west facade from the driveway (3). Image:Belvoir6.jpg|The north east facade (1). Image:Belvoir7.jpg|The stables in the background and what I imagine is the duke's tennis court and swimming pool. Image:Belvoir8.jpg|The north east facade (2). Image:Belvoir Peacocks.jpg|This lady and her gentlemen friends sat above the ice cream parlour... Image:Belvoir Peacock.jpg|...and I shared my ice cream with this fella. Image:BelvoirGardens1.jpg|Statues from the 16thC and a pond in the background. Image:BelvoirGardens2.jpg|The south west facade from the rose garden (2). Image:BelvoirGardens3.jpg|The duchess's garden. Image:BelvoirHermitage1.jpg|I think this is a hermitage. Above it was an old summerhouse. Image:BelvoirHermitage2.jpg|The hermitage up-close. Image:BelvoirPond.jpg|A pond. Image:Grimsthorpe1.jpg|Grimsthorpe Castle - taken about 9pm from the bottom of the driveway.