Absolute Touring

Sudeley Castle

• Award-winning gardens and medieval ruins nestled in the Cotswolds on the edge of the historic town of Winchcombe
• Extensive gardens have been lovingly restored and designed to reflect the Castle’s historic past.   The Queens' Garden is amongst the finest rose gardens in England and sits on the original Tudor parterre
• Many royal connections:
  • Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII, lived here after her marriage to Thomas Seymour, Lord of Sudeley, following the king’s death. She is buried in the 14th- century chapel, entombed in white marble; her prayerbook is on display
  • Henry VIII and two more of his wives, Lady Jane Grey and Anne Boleyn, as well as Queen Elizabeth I all visited Sudeley.
• The Dent-Brocklehurst family who live in part of the castle have been connected with it since 1830. The Dents made leather gloves whilst the Brocklehursts were silk merchants - a marriage within the families brought the businesses together
• The town of Winchcombe justly claims one thousand years of continuous occupation, the main street's long curve of ancient cottages welded by time into a tight terrace of stone homes
• Sudeley Castle website
  

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Approx 1 hour northwest of Oxford.