Leigh Barn

Leigh Barn

Out and out today involved a trip to Leigh Barn near Worcester. It’s English Heritage, free to get in to and well worth a visit.

You can read all about it on the website link below, but if that’s too much for you, you can get all you need to know from the following lines lifted from the English Heritage web page.

Leigh Barn is an outstanding example of English medieval carpentry, and the largest cruck framed structure in Britain .

Built for Pershore Abbey in about 1325, it is over 42 metres long with 18 cruck blades – each made from a single oak tree.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/leigh-court-barn/