Visit to the Grace Dieu Ruins
We paid a visit to the Grace Dieu ruins recently.
Anne, my wife, had not been there before although she had seen the ruins when passing by on a coach.
I met her in Loughborough at lunchtime, after we had both finished our various morning activities, and we caught the bus out to Thringstone.
It is a very pleasant walk through the woods from the car park of the Bull`s Head, going under a railway bridge and a most impressive viaduct, which would have been seen by 19th century visitors to the big house.
The ruins are of a priory which was founded by Roesia de Verdon in 1235, and are famously haunted.
Afterwards, we had an excellent dinner at the Bull`s Head. Not really very expensive, we enjoyed it very much and it filled us up very nicely.
Posted by colin on Wednesday 15th September, 2010 at 9:35am