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 Another holiday, another National Trust property to write about!  The Killerton Estate is near to Exeter in Devon, a 6500 acre expanse of land which is also the site of an extinct volcano, an Iron Age hill fort, a bears house and best of all a cafe and toilets.  From parking the car (make sure you pay and display, where we parked our car we managed to completely miss the machines). You walk through passed a couple of barns with toilets in and through to pay or, like me, use your annual pass.  You'll be at the stables where there is a small cafe, a bookshop selling second hand books and a shop selling local produce and on site wares plus the usual National Trust fare.  It is a beautiful mixture of formal gardens, fancy house and wild forest areas. When we arrived we noticed signs for an archaeological dig going on by the University of Exeter. We followed the trail down the south side of the estate towards Colombjohn which was the site of a grand house owned by t...

After much deliberation, I decided to buy a National Trust annual pass for the family. We were visiting Bath earlier in the year and we have ideas for the summer holidays to travel around the UK and so I thought it would be a good idea to have the option of some plans for days out, culture, beauty and generally less thinking would be involved when we travel.  For anyone outside the UK or does not know, the National Trust is an charitable organisation which looks after and manages over 500 properties, gardens and land of historical or cultural interest within the UK. For example it looks after The Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, Cliveden House in Berkshire and is linked with English Heritage for Stonehenge.    The Giants Causeway Cliveden House Stonehenge   These are all very important sites and without organisations like the National Trust, a lot of them would have been lost to time or disrepair.    Each location has a place to park either on site or n...