This is a bespoke tour
The cost – includes breakfast, hotel accommodation, coach, museums and guide, but not food and drinks. – is £1,450 per person. Please note that this is the cost of a single occupancy in a single room as we wish to be open with the all-inclusive costs.
A discount of 10% is available for bookings with two people sharing a room.
You are accompanied by a tour leader to ensure that your tour runs smoothly.
This is a coach tour and your guide is Warwick Louth.
Itinerary
Start at Wallingford Castle. Talk about role after Hastings as site of subjugation of Saxon Witan under Bishop Stigand to Duke William.
Head to Reading Museum, to look at the reproduction copy of the Bayeux Tapestry.
Lunch
Head to Bosham Church, see reputed site of Harold Godwinson
Book into Hotel
Dinner at a local restaurant
Head for Pevensey Castle. Talk about logistics and supply, weather in early 1066.
Head to Hastings Castle. Talk about the formation and development of motte and bailey castles.
Lunch
Head to Battle. Opportunity to explore Abbey and Battlefield Centre.
End the day at Crowhurst. Site of Harold’s local manor, laid to waist just before Hastings
Book into Hotel
Dinner at a local restaurant
Head to Southwark-Talk about Norman Repulse, led by returned Earls Edwin and Morcar.
Head to Westminster Abbey-Visit the shrine of Edward the Confessor.
Lunch
End at the Tower of London. Talk about castle architecture and development, nature of Castle under William. Organise weapons handling sessions with Royal Armouries.
Book into hotel
Dinner at a local restaurant
Head to Berkhamsted Castle and talk about final capitulation of Witan to William and William’s kingship and Domesday Book.
Lunch
End the day at Waltham Abbey. Talk about possibility this is another resting place for King Harold, away from public view to prevent use of grave as a centre for later Saxon unrest.
