Join us for a companionable three-night walking break. There is a choice each day of either short or longer, more demanding walks with one of our guides, returning to the welcome and warmth of Parcevall Hall. We usually end with a guided walk suitable for all on the final day. Our Chaplain, Graham Bettridge, will be on hand to

Tutor:  Tim Stimson In the early 19th century in Britain spectacular paintings of epic events in awe-inspiring landscapes competed for popularity with enchantingly diminutive vistas of fairyland; both encapsulating a complex relationship between man, nature and the supernatural. These paintings expressed responses to the tumult following Napoleon’s defeat with images embracing the wild, garden design, ‘Panoramania’, millenarian hysteria and

‘Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest’ Mt 11 v 28 Contemplative Prayer is the expression of the desire to seek stillness amid the rush of life, to find silence amid noise, to listen amid the clamour to speak, to deepen the internal amid the purely external