John Smith and Pocahontas 3 Day Tour

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Maximum 12 people per tour with personal service

Day 1 - Morning departure from central London to Lincolnshire and visit Willoughby, where John Smith was born in 1560, and the parish church showcasing a photograph of the register entry of his baptism, the window by the font commemorating the event and a memorial plaque by the Jamestown foundation.  On to Alford, an attractive market town where he first attended school at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School. Louth, and another of his schools, where a plaster model of John Smith by Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting movement who claimed Smith as an ancestor, stands in the building on the school’s site. Dinner and overnight

Day 2 – Today we visit Heacham on the Norfolk coast, which claims to have been visited by Pocahontas and the church with its memorials to the Rolfe family, including an alabaster monument to Pocahontas.  Next to Sandringham  the country retreat of the Queen. A delightful house and 60 acres of gardens and lakes. After lunch we visit Otley Hall, a beautiful 16th Century moated Hall, set in beautiful gardens in the tranquil Suffolk countryside. Here Bartholomew Gosnold (1571-1607) planned his successful voyages to the New World, resulting in his 1602 discovery of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, which he named after his infant daughter. In 1607, thirteen years before the Mayflower landed, he returned to found the Jamestown colony in Virginia, the first permanent English-speaking settlement in America. Dinner and overnight

Day 3 - After breakfast we drive into the county of Kent and see Princess Pocahontas’statue and her resting place in St George’s Church, where we view the two beautiful stained-glass memorial nave windows. Drive along the River Thames to see the Virginia Quay Monument, the departure point for the New World of the three ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, on 20 December 1606. To the city of London to St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, with its famous stained-glass window commemorating the life of Captain John Smith, who died in 1631 and is buried in the south aisle.