Inky blue at Weston

Weston Park is one of those odd English compromises in which the ancient owners give up their rights to a stately home – to pay taxes usually - yet are still involved in its running.
Weston Park, which you see here, is the ancestral home of the Earls of Bradford.

It's in a thousand acres of parkland, which make for good walks and interesting views.

Annoyingly, the main house is not open to the public as much as you might think, so you need to find out exactly when it’s open, which is also not as easy as it should be.

Sinai Park 'swimming pool'

Yes – a swimming pool! As we think ahead to Summer, one’s thoughts turn to an outdoors swim, but the greeny waters of this pit are perhaps not so inviting.
However, three hundred years ago, this pit, which has brick steps leading down into it, was the very latest in outdoor bathing.
This ‘bathing-pool’ sits in the gardens of Sinai Park House, the Jacobean mansion just outside Burton. The house and grounds are slowly being restored.

Link:  Sinai Park House