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Back to Clevedon Court

One National Trust property which is just down the road for me, is Clevedon Court. I was thinking about getting some air, and decided to pop over, have a look at the house, the gardens, and maybe get a coffee.

Clevedon Court

Medieval manor house and 18th-century terraced garden with wide views of the Mendip Hills. Clevedon Court is an outstanding 14th-century manor house. Purchased by Abraham Elton in 1709, this remarkable survivor from the medieval period has been the ancestral home of the Elton family ever since.

Current saving £130.30
One adult £13.00
Parking Free
Total saving £13.00
Cumulative saving £239.30
Membership cost £96
Net cumulative saving £143.30

While much of the house is now open to the public, some parts remain private. This is because the Elton family still uses the house, and they continue to stay there. The house also has limited opening times and only recently opened after the winter break, even then it is only open three days during the week.

I enjoyed exploring the house, it was quite busy. I then walked around the stepped gardens at the back of the house. The gardens are also a highlight and are well worth exploring.

This year I have planned to visit fifty (new) places, however I already visited Clevedon Court as part of that series of blog posts last year.

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Clevedon #50places2026

Clevedon

I went for a walk along the seafront at Clevedon, which is just up the road from me. I nearly went down the pier, but it was quite cold and windy. Then it started to rain, which cut my walk short.

I did think I had been there in 2025 and would have logged it in my #50places2025 visits. However, it looks like my last visit to Clevedon was back in December 2024. I think when deciding places for a walk, I have been to Portishead more frequently. I have visited Clevedon quite a bit over the years, so I was a little surprised I hadn’t visited in 2025. That said I did visit Clevedon Court, but as that is on the road to Tickenham I’ve not really thought of it in Clevedon itself.

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Then and Now Take Two – Marmorkirken

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

The Marmorkirken is an 18th-century Lutheran church with the largest dome in Scandinavia.

I took this photograph of the Marmorkirken in July 2004 using a Sony Cybershot digital camera.

Marmorkirken

When I returned to Copenhagen in March 2026 I took a similar shot using an iPhone 13.

Not quite the same shot, but pretty close.

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Then and Now – Cox’s Mill Hotel

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook.  The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.

I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart.

After a recent visit to Cheddar I was reviewing some photographs from previous visits and realised I had taken two similar photographs of the (then) historic Cox’s Mill Hotel. This was a hotel built on the site of a former mill dated back to the mid 1800s.

This was taken in August 2013 with a Canon EOS 400D digital camera.

This view of the now boarded up hotel was taken in May 2021 with an iPhone 8.

However in October 2022 the hotel was demolished as it was beyond economic repair and the space has been turned into initially a public space, but is now a motorbike parking area.

This (almost) similar shot was taken in January 2024 with an iPhone 13.

I took this photograph in April 2016 with an iPhone 17 Pro Max of the water area.