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In Rutland visitors can find artists, craftsmen and specialist shops offering
hand painted china and crockery, by Wendy De Vertuil and designer outfits, just below Rockingham Castle at Jilly's dress agency. Tattersalls of Uppingham has years of expertise in oriental antique rugs, whilst father,son and daughter at Finnemore and Son stonemasons produce stone fireplaces and garden ornaments, to order. Floral designs, from Earthworks in Uppingham, run by Julia Dilworth offers original arrangements for every special occasion.

Simon Todd carves out myths and legends at his Green Man studio with
sculpture in wood and stone. Avalon Designs, High Street, Little Bytham is another family firm producing a wide range of gates and ornaments to order in wrought ironwork.
You can buy hardy herbaceous plants from plant specialist Rose Dejardin, who has 600 varieties of plants for sale at her nursery at Wing on the southern side of Rutland Water.

When you have exhausted your sightseeing and shopping opportunities take lunch or dinner at Hackneys, Rutland’s premier bistro, in Printers Yard in Uppingham town centre.
Tinwell Lodge Farm in the heart of Rutland is a 650-acre working farm where Ronni Flint provides
excellent accommodation in a spacious Georgian farmhouse.

All this among some of England's most attractive villages with ironstone cottages, country houses and traditional village inns. Uppingham's attractive streets, market place and town-houses provide a very comfortable place to browse or linger - and there is free parking throughout. See our Local Links page

Rutland Water, Eyebrook reservoir, Fineshade forest, Rockingham Castle, Barnsdale Gardens, Burghley House, Lyddington Bede House are all open for public viewing. Rutland's farms and rolling countryside all add to the eye-catching scenery around England’s smallest county.

Rutland's old stone villages lie between Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. The two country towns, Uppingham and Oakham, still have markets on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Nearby Burghley House, Rockingham Castle, Uppingham’s Christmas Livestock Market, Exton’s annual Street Market, Morris Dancing, Music in Lyddington, local craft fairs all add to a lively English country scene for Rutland visitors to discover.