NTA UK Tours

Combining the beautiful scenery of south west England and the wonderful gardens in this area. 

Visits to RHS Wisley, the world famous Eden Project and The Lost Gardens of Heligan, as well as various nuseries and smaller private gardens such as Bosvigo.

Wine tasting on a beautiful vineyard in Kent, cider production in Herefordshire, a Cotswolds' fruit producer, Wensleydale cheese creamery, as well as the UK's famous pork pie, puddings, ice cream and of course 'fish & chips'.  Speak to the producers, watch demonstrations and visit the "The Tastes of London" event, featuring world class chefs, top restaurants and over 200 hand picked food exhibitors to shop from!

Visits to UK touristic highlights include; Gloucestershire Cathedral, Tintern Abbey, Chester Cathedral, Shrewsbury Abbey, Melrose Abbey and much more.  Meet local choirs, perform concerts at these or smaller, community churches and caathedrals.. this itinerary is very flexible and the route and visits/concert venues can be tailored to your groups requirements.

The UK has so much to offer for a Maritime Tour..

This tour takes you to what was the most important sea docks in the world (Cardiff Bay), visit the SS Great Britain and the city of Bristol - famous for quuality ship building- Falmouth National Maritime Museum and of course Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.  Climb aboard HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and The Marie Rose and visit the National Museum of the Royal Navy and The D-Day Museum and much more.

This tour showcase some of the lesser known gardens of the UK.. Rousham Park, Westbury Court Gardens, Sezincote, Westonbirt Aboretum, Great Dixter House & Garden and also Stourhead & Stourton Garden.  Other well known visits include RHS Wisley, Hidcote Manor Garden and Sissinghurst Castle Garden.  A highlight of the tour is the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, with displays of the latest techniques being used in gardening, spectacular 'show' gardens and many companies from garden centres and plant stockists to garden equipment and furniture.

The UK is full of castles and cathedrals, here are just a few with great history!

Starting in the south east with Canterbury Cathedral (home to the head of the English church), Dover Castle which dates back to Roman times, the amazingly intact Warwick Castle, the Tudor style Broughton Castle, York Minster and Durham Castle & Cathedrals, which are both UNESCO World Heritage Sites.  A highlight of this tour is a visit to Alnwick Castle & Gardens which is now famous as the Harry Potter movies Hogwarts School.  The tour ends in Scotland at the spectacular Stirling Castle.

A tour of the beautiful south east England.  Visits include Sissinghurst and Great Dixter - both stunning gardens - as well as Penhurst Palace whose gardens are considered amongst the most beautiful in England.  Gravetye Manor, Munstead Wood (belonging to Gertrude Jekyll), the unique Hestercombe gardens, Ilford Manor (a romantic hillside garden) and The Courts Garden (showcasing English style at it's very best).  Others include Hidcote, Barnsley house and Kiftsgate Court and Rousham. 

For this tour we chose West to East coast but this can be tailored to any coasts!

Showcasing Liverpool (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and the home of the Beatles, travel via Blackpool with it's iconic tower and the stunning Empress Ballroom.  Take in the mining history of the west coast before travelling along Hadrian's Wall over to Holy Island and Lindisfarne which can only be reached at low tide.  Travel the Durham heritage coast trail with it's famous harbour down through wonderful Whitby and the Yorkshire Dales National Park to historic York.

Here is a sample of another embroidery tour.. Scotland via East Coast!

Visits to the Burrell Collection with it's wonderful needlework collections, Blair Castle with a special viewing of Lady Evelyn's embroidery collection & the Spanish embroidery, the stunning Glamis Castle (childhood home of HM The Queen Mother), Scone Palace, Traquair House (the oldest inhabited house in Scotland) and the spectacular Alnwick Castle & Gardens.  Meet with the Cathedral broderers at UNESCO Heritage site Durham Cathedral for a private tour, view the Bowes Museum which houses nationally and internationally important collections, Whitby Museum which has one of the best needlework samplers in the UK, Chatsworth House with it's wonderful private collections and finally Sulgrave Manor.

This is an itinerary based on a Jewish Heritage theme but this is flexible.  Tours can be tailored to deliver religions. 

This particular tour visits some of Scotland and England's touristic highlights as well as Synagogue and congregation & community visits.

The UK is full of wonderful places for embroidery or patchwork & quilting enthusiasts! 

This tour visits treasured collections at Parham House, the D -Day Museum with the Overlord Tapestry, Montacute House  with it's samplers from the Goodhart Collection, The American Museum in Claverton Manor, the magnificent Powis Castle with it's wonderful collection of tapestries and Indian embroidery, the Quaker Tapestry at Kendal and Gawthorpe Hall with the finest collections of lace and embroidery in Britain.... and much more besides!

Agricultural based tours can be organised all over England, Scotland and Wales.  Here is a sample itinerary arriving into Manchester and touring Lake District and up the west coast of Scotland, right up to Ullapool before heading down to Edinburgh.  Visiting a variety of farms en route including; beef, sheep, wild boar, venison and taking in the touristic highlights.

Combine a tour with a major equestrian 3 day event with a tour of the racing capital of England .. Newmarket!  Visits to The National Stud, Horse Racing Museum, Jockey Rooms and more can be combined with stud visits and 3 days at this major event.  Visits can be tailored to each groups interest, this is just to give you an example.