6/6/2019, Disembarkation


"St. Mary The Virgin" church in the village of Bampton in Cotswold.
This church was used as the village church in "Downtown Abbey" TV series.


Gravestones outside the church.


Inside the church.


Imagine Mary and the rest of the Grantham clan all have sat on these pews.


A table inside the church displaying pictures of the actors and actresses
when they were shooting film in town.


Close-up of one of the posters.


A poster in the village library showing how the village was
transformed into a turn-of-the-century village in Downtown Abbey.
All the modern signposts and lamp posts must be cleverly shielded away from viewers eye-sight.


The village green in front of the church.
(There were only 6 paying guests on this tour, with a 50-seater bus, one driver and one tour guide.)
Notice the walls of a house partially seen on the left hand side of this picture.


It was the house used in the TV series as Mrs. Isobel Crawley's house,
Matthew Crawley's mother.


On a different street, the film crew turned two pubs into pubs in the TV series.


We were now in the village of Burford.
As our guide walked us to our lunch restaurant, we passed by this pub.
I'll let you Google "Why British pubs have arms in the name?"
It's a very interesting story.


The courtyard of our 15th-century lunch restaurant called "The Lamb Inn". 
Its dining room was very elegant and modern, and the lunch was delicious.


By 4:30pm, we arrived at Heathrow airport.
There was a branch of "Yo! Sushi" chain in Heathrow airport Terminal 3.
It served conveyer-belt sushi.


Yo! Sushi also offered sushi boxes to go.
At £5.95/box they were not expensive at all, considering this location was inside an airport.