As in previous years, the Sunday route will offer the rare opportunity to visit glorious places not normally open to the public.
The hugely popular Gloucestershire Navigation Rally and parallel Scenic Tour will take place just three weeks today, on the Sunday following Pre-War Prescott. We can accept 60 cars on the day and as of today we have 52 entries so there is still time for you to enter either event. Both the rally and the tour follow the same route. The Navigation Rally is a light-hearted affair with the added spice of a little competition and awards, while those looking for a more relaxing day out can enter the Scenic Tour. The Scenic Tourists will be provided with a comprehensive Tour Handbook which will contain clear route directions and historical background notes on the places of interest that we will be visiting along the route. The Navigation Rallyists will all be provided with a sealed envelope at the start containing the explicit route, so can, at any point, transfer to the Scenic Tour if they become hopelessly lost!
There will be a lunch stop at a hidden and quirky hostelry and we will be concluding at the glorious Jacobean Stanway House, courtesy of Lord Wemyss for traditional cream teas, home-made cakes and a private viewing of the magnificent 300 foot gravity fountain in the grounds, after the presentation of awards. Navigation Rallyists will need a copy of Ordnance Survey Landranger map 163 – any edition, while the Scenic Tourists will not require a map.
On Sunday evening, the weekend will conclude with a farewell gathering at the Shutters Inn in Gotherington village, just along the lane from Prescott, to which all will be very welcome and traditional food and fine ales will be available. So if you have entered Pre-War Prescott on Saturday (or are planning to), do consider making a weekend of it. You can enter either or both days here. And, dare I mention, the long range weather forecast from the Met Office is looking very good indeed for the whole weekend!