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Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8QS. Tel:
01666 880 220. Westonbirt Arboretum is a wonderful world of trees.
There are 18,000 of them from all over the world, planted from
1829 to the present day, producing 600 acres of beautifully landscaped
Cotswold countryside. Location: About 5 miles west of Malmesbury.
Horse Trials Office, Badminton
Horse Trials, Badminton, Glos. GL9 1DF. Tel: 0870 2423438. The
Badminton Horse Trials is a three-day event, and takes place
in May each year in the park of Badminton House, the seat of
the Dukes of Beaufort in Gloucestershire. The event started in
1949. www.badminton-horse.co.uk. About 8 miles west of Malmesbury.
Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8XP. Tel 01666
502329. "At Chavenage you can escape into the peaceful surroundings
of a Cotswold manor, virtually unchanged for 400 years."
Chavenage is a wonderful Elizabethan house of mellow grey Cotswold
stone. www.chavenage.com. About 6 miles north of Malmesbury.
Cotswold Water Park Society,
Keynes Country Park, Shorncote, Cirencester, GL7 6DF. Tel: 01285
861459. With more than 140 lakes. 40 square miles of countryside.
74 fishing lakes. To the north east of Malmesbury.
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