On the Thursday D and I visited the Hop Pocket Shopping Village in Bishop's Frome. We have visited a few times before - there is a garden centre there, various independent shops, a food hall, a large gift shop and tearoom. It is only 30 minutes from Hatfield so not too far to travel.
We visited the Emporium first which sells craft items and antiques.
Dennis the Dragon was rather cute. I really do want a stone dragon for the garden - I did once find one I really loved at Bringsty Vintage Centre but when we finally got round to buying it we found it had already been sold!
We had a good look round the large gift shop - mainly looking for Christmas presents and then visited the Food Hall. There is a Hop Museum there which I was hoping to see but sadly it is closed at the moment.
I was very tempted by this display of books - many by Logaston Press.
We had parkin and a cup of tea in the tearoom.
Before leaving we had a look round the garden centre and D bought a reduced Hot Lemon Chilli plant full of yellow chillis which we will freeze and try and overwinter the plant for next year.
We had a brief look round the village - this house was once the National School in the village and was built in 1843.
It was too late for lunch but this looks a lovely pub. B once went here to meet friends for an evening meal. It is actually Grade II listed and was built in the C17th but has been much altered. There is timber framing behind the cement rendering!
My main reason for stopping off was to visit the church of St Mary the Virgin! I'll write about that in the next post.
Photos taken by me with the Panasonic Lumix FZ330 bridge camera and the one marked *D was taken by my son with the Canon SX50HS bridge camera. (I don't particularly rate my photos but if anyone wishes to use one of mine or my son's I would be grateful for an email first - thanks).
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