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Home to The Retreat Inn

Motorhome Journey from Home to The Retreat Inn (Norton-Juxta-Kempsey)

We spend the morning backing up our devices and finish packing Hymer. We are ready to leave immediately after lunch.

Taking M6 south to Birmingham and then M5 past Droitwich and onto A38 to Worcester and Tibberton where we stop at the pub ‘God Speed the Plough’. The intention was to have a meal there and stay overnight on their car park (which Mr C. had checked out beforehand) but the young woman on the bar was having none of it…  they don’t serve food!  We could have a take-away delivered there, but we move on to The Retreat at Norton-juxta-Kempsey where we are actively encouraged to park up and come in for a meal… it really is great to find pubs encouraging motorhomes to stay overnight, especially when they are near the motorway like The Retreat Inn.

We do and spend a very pleasant evening chatting to the barman, not least as the place is very quiet (and highly recommended) then a very quiet overnight. Later, I remember that Norton-juxta-Kempsey was the village where MaryAnn Hyde (my great grandmother/my mother’s grandmother) was born in 1851, and her two brothers William [b.1855] and Alfred [b.1857], it was the village where she lived with Edward Page after their marriage. I was sorry I did not remember while we were there, a walk around the village would have been very interesting.