Shuttleworth - interesting place - there’s the Shuttleworth Collection of old planes, the Swiss Garden, a Bird of Prey Centre and some kind of play area - all a bit random, all in the grounds of a big house that isn’t open like a stately home, but I think you can hire it for weddings.

The tearoom/restaurant is in the main visitor entrance building semi-detached to the gift shop and serves all the various attractions. This means it’s also accessible to people not visiting the attractions, but does also mean it features uninspiring views over a gravel carpark.

Tea in a pot, with a jug of milk, which you fill youself, so you get plenty, china cup and saucer - I got two cups of tasty tea.

The scone was oddly flat, as you can see from the pic and had a slightly catering look to it, but it was much tastier than it looked, with a fresh moist texture and plenty of fruit. The prepackaged clotted cream was more than generous and yummy. Jam was in a carton, too, but I was offered a choice of blackcurrant or strawberry. Strawberry, of course, is the only sensible choice. It was Robinsons - a good old reliable. Nothing special, but did the job.

Not a bad tea, of a supermarket restaurant kind of standard, not really something you’d make a special trip for.

£3.85 - definitely on the high side for what you got.

Scone was fruited, decent texture, served with a mini pot of jam and a couple of pats of anchor butter. Which all sounds fine, but it was lacking in flavour somehow.

Tea - well that’s another thing altogether. Only nasty paper cups available, no real milk, only the unpleasant miniature cartons of ‘milk with non-milk fat’ which apparently ‘tastes like real milk’. Pah! And how much do they charge for just one cup of this sacreligious brew? £1.60. Bloody Nora.

£3.90 - far too much for what you get.

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