Absolute Touring

Warwick Castle

• The majestic walls and turrets of the medieval fortress of Warwick Castle - built in the 14th century on the site of a Norman castle - rise above the tree-fringed River Avon
• Owned by the Tussaud's Group for the past thirty years, the castle offers visitors a tour of its battlements, dungeons and state rooms with an extravaganza of waxwork nobility
• The medieval walled town barely survived the disastrous fire of 1694: but out of the ashes arose fine Georgian buildings, to blend with the timber-framed houses that had escaped the flames
• One to survive was the Lord Leycester Hospital, founded in 1571 to house those wounded in the service of Queen Elizabeth I and here successors and still in use today
• The collegiate church of St Mary contains the Beauchamp Chapel built to house the tomb of Richard Beauchamp (died 1439), one of the finest of the medieval period

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Approx 1 hours northwest of Oxford.