Newstead Abby

This is Newstead Abby.  Newstead Abby is a beautiful historic house with lovely gardens and places to walk.  It was once owned by the famous poet Lord Byron.

This is Byron's bedroom.  Byron slept with a gun by his bed and had two exits out of his room.  This was because he had annoyed so many husbands because he had affairs with their wives.  His bed looks very short in this photo.  This is because they said people often slept sitting part way up on their pillows.  They believed you would die in you sleep because your airways would collapse. 

This is the dinning room which had a table and a fireplace to keep him warm while he ate his dinner.

This is the entertaining room.  The entertaining room had a table that was made out of very colorful natural rocks and worth millions of dollars.  The photo below shows my dad touching this table.

Below is the room where Lord Byron would show some of the animal conquests from some of his hunting adventures.  He loved to hunt.

This is the chapel in the Abby.  It looks quit small but can actually hold 100 people.  

There are over 300 acres of lush parkland with paths that meander past lakes, ponds, and waterfalls.  We didn't have time to see everything but we had fun walking around the gardens and some of the walking paths.