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Three miles northeast of Hailes Abbey, the traditional Cotswold manor house of Snowshill Manor (April-June & Sept to early Nov Wed-Sun noon-5pm; July & Aug Mon & Wed-Sun noon-5pm; garden same months & days 11am-5.30pm; GBP6; gardens only GBP3; NT) invites a detour. Inspired as a boy by his grandmother's "wonderful" Chinese cabinet (now in the Zenith room of the house), the architect, craftsman and poet Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956) spent fifty years of his life in the pursuit of objects which were not "rare or valuable" but "of interest as records of various vanished handicrafts". The results of his forays - model carts, boneshaker bicycles, children's prams, wooden toys, beds, all kinds of musical instruments - were crammed into the house, while he himself lived in a cottage in the garden. It's an endlessly diverting collection, a veritable trove of exotic curiosities. Most dramatic is the arrangement of 26 Samurai warriors dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in the Green Room. Note that entry is by timed ticket and there is a ten-minute walk to the house from the entrance to the grounds.
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