Arlington Court

The drive from Bath to Combe Martin was our longest scheduled drive - google put it at 2 hours and 21 minutes. We planned to make a stop at Arlington Court, which was just slightly off the path and should have taken a similar amount of time. It took us at least 3 hours, perhaps closer to 4 hours.

Our hope in visiting Arlington Court was to find a better information about a couple graveyards I had found in my ancestry research. I had found 3 graves in 2 different graveyards, which we hoped to visit. But the address information I had was not very helpful with modern GPS or google. As a historical site, I thought Arlington Court might have staff familiar with the area (a bit like the museum in Burlingame) or better local maps.

Ann and I at Arlington Court

We arrived at Arlington Court too late to tour any of the buildings, but mom and I were able to talk to staff in the gift shop. They didn’t know the area, but they did know the type of map we needed - a special map made for walking, biking and hiking that provides far more detail than google. Of course, they didn’t have this type of map for this area. It was unclear if they were sold out due to being the local area or if they carried another area that was more popular for outdoor sports or if the locals already know the best routes in their own backyard. Armed with this information, we were prepared to search gas stations along the rest of our route.

The drive from Arlington Court to Combe Martin was not particularly remarkable after the roads we had taken to get to Arlington Court. Ann did offer to drive at this point. I was exhausted and nearly took her up on the offer. But I had finally gotten comfortable with the car and where I was driving. As terrible as the roads had been coming in, it seemed a terrible place to ask her to take over. (We learned later from a map that many of the roads we had taken were “generally over 4m wide”…for two way traffic.)