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The National Museum of Computing, located at Bletchley
Park , is home to the world's largest collection of working
historic computers. Follow the development of computing:
from the Turing-Welchman Bombe (pictured) and Colossus of
the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the
1950s, 60s and 70s, to the rise of personal computing and the
rise of mobile computing and the internet.

Woburn Abbey This is the ancestral home of The Dukes
of Bedford, the Russell Family, who at one stage literally
owned one tenth of the country. The Abbey itself was
founded in 1145 but the existing house was built in the mid 18th century and remodelled later that
century. The State Apartments, which are the main attraction, are filled with art treasures,
including works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Canaletto and Velasquez.

The collection also encompasses examples of the most expensive manufacturers of furniture,
French and English in many periods, and a diverse collection of porcelain and silverware.

The world renowned Woburn Abbey Deer Farm was set up in 1993, and is now home to nine
species of deer, the Red Deer and Fallow Deer which are native to Britain and seven other
species which originally came from Asia, including the critically endangered Pére David’s Deer
from China which no longer exists in the wild..

Burghley House. Described as ‘England’s greatest Elizabethan house’, Burghley was built and
designed by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, between 1555 and 1587. Its
grounds include 2,000 acres of Capability Brown (him again) gardens and a deer park. The interior
features carvings by Grinling Gibbons. In the Pagoda Room are portraits of Queen Elizabeth I,
King Henry VIII, Oliver Cromwell and members of the Cecil family.

The house was the setting for Castel Gandolfo in the film The Da Vinci Code.

It is also the location for the famous Burghley Horse Trials, one of the major equestrian events in
the world.

On the Cambridge To York via Sherwood Forest Route

London to Oxford / Oxford to London

West Wycombe Park, the ancestral home of the Dashwood Family, is a magnificent Paladian
mansion set in grounds designed by Humphrey Repton. It was used as a location for interior shots
of Lady Rosamund’s London home in the hit series Downton Abbey and has been a location for a
number of tv and movie productions.

The Hell-fire Caves were originally excavated by Sir Francis Dashwood in the 1740’s to give
employment to the villagers following a succession of harvest failures. They were then, and still
remain, totally unique. The excavated chalk was used to build the main road from West Wycombe
to High Wycombe. The Caves were all dug by hand and you can still see the actual individual pick
marks on the walls.

Sir Francis established the Knights of Sir Francis of Wycombe, later to be known as the notorious
Hell-Fire Club, who used the caves for a number of their meetings and parties. Members included
Lord Sandwich, John Wilkes and other influential men of the era. Benjamin Franklin, a great friend
of Sir Francis, was also a visitor to the Caves.