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De Vere Society
Spring Meeting and AGM
Sunday 30 March, 2008
Hedingham Castle, Castle Hedingham, Essex

Price: £25.00 per person, including Buffet lunch at the White Hart, Great Yeldham

Programme
10.30 Register & Coffee in Keep, Hedingham Castle

11.00 Professor Michael Langford of Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge:
A Shakespeare Whodunnit at Cambridge.
Michael Langford will speak on his forthcoming book
The de Vere Papers. Introduced by Elizabeth Imlay.

12.00 AGM – including election of committee member

12.45 Lunch at the White Hart, 5 mins NW of Hedingham on the A1017

2.15 Kevin Gilvary
Queens’ College Cambridge & Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays

3.00 Malcolm Blackmoor
Fedor Kusmich & The Authorship Problem

3.15 Discussion & Suggestions

4.00 Tea

To reserve a place (or places), please contact:
Kevin Gilvary
DVS Hon Treasurer
6 Rosedale Close
Titchfield
Fareham
PO14 4EL
UK

Tel + 44 (0) 1329 842689
e-mail: kevingilvary@btinternet.com

You may renew your subscriptions by cheque to the Hon Treasurer at above address.

Travelling to Castle Hedingham

Public Transport
There is no direct route by public transport from London to Castle Hedingham.
If you are travelling on Sunday 30 March, the best way would be:

By train
London Liverpool Street to Braintree (1 change)

By coach
F rom London Victoria Coach Station to Braintree station
Then Taxi – from Braintree to Castle Hedingham - £24 (approx)
(Hedingham Cars – 01787 – 460738)

By road
Hedingham Castle is situated in the village of Castle Hedingham, half a mile from the A1017 between Cambridge and Colchester.

How to get there from London: M25, M11 exit 8 (A120 Colchester), take A120 to Braintree. Circle round the bypass following Sudbury signs. The castle is signposted from here. 1m out of Braintree on Sudbury road, branch left on A1017 to Gosfield and the Hedinghams. In Sible Hedingham, take right turning to Castle Hedingham and turn left to castle at top of village main street. Entrance gates 200 yards on right.




Hotels, Guest Houses and Bed & Breakfast

Swan Hotel
High Street
Lavenham
Suffolk
CO10 9AQ
Tel: 01787 247477

The Mill Hotel
Sudbury
Suffolk
CO10 6BD
Tel. 01787 375544
www.millhotelsuffolk.co.u

The Bull Hotel
Hall Street
Long Melford
Sudbury
Suffolk
CO10 9JG
Tel. 01787 378494White

Hart Hotel
Bocking End
Braintree
Essex
CM7 6AB
Tel 01376 321401

The Bell Hotel
Market Hill
Clare 
Suffolk
CO10 8NN 
Tel. 01787 277741

Lavenham Priory
Water Street
Lavenham 
Suffolk 
CO10 9RW 
Tel: 01787 247404  
www.lavenhampriory.co.uk  

Premier Travel Inn 
Galley’s Corner  
Cressing Road  
Braintree Bypass
Essex
CM7 8GG                                 
Tel. 01376 340914

Express by Holiday Inn 
Galley’s Corner  
Cressing Road  
Braintree
Essex
CM7 8DJ
Tel. 01376 551141

Travelling Times from Castle Hedingham
Lavenham – 30 mins
Long Melford – 30 mins
Clare – 20 mins
Sudbury – 20 mins
Braintree – 15 mins
Toppesfield – 10 mins
Castle Hedingham – 5 mins

 

 

The Wagon and Horses 
High Street    
Great Yeldham   
Essex                                                  
CO9 4EX
Tel 07000 924466
Fax 01787 237936
Email:partners@waggonandhorses.net
www.waggonandhorses.net

Brickwall Farm
Sible Hedingham 
Halstead   
Essex
CO9 3RH
Tel. 01787 460329
Mobile: 07855 359714
Email:brickwallfarm.co.uk

The Castle Lodge
Castle View House 
5 Priory Wood  
Castle Hedingham,  
CO9 3DU    
Email: cathy@castleview1897.fsnet.co.uk
http://castleviewhouse.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

The Old School House 
St James Street  
Castle Hedingham 
Essex                                                             
CO9 3EW
Tel. 01787 461629

Bank House 
St James Street  
Castle Hedingham
Halstead
Essex    
CO9 3EN
Tel. 01787 462030

The Hermitage 
28 Constitution Hill 
Sudbury
Suffolk CO10 2PT
Tel: 01787 374121
Chrisandjean@sicf.freeserve.co.uk

Ollivers Farm 
Toppesfield CO9 4LS
Halstead
Tel: 01787 237642
www.essex-bed-breakfast.co.uk

Tocat House 
Hedingham
Essex
CO9 3RG
Tel:- 01787 461942