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By Thursday (21 March) the touring party will head inland towards Edinburgh, stopping off at the Robert-Adams designed stately home Archerfield House at Direleton, East Lothian on the East coast of Scotland.

 

The tour then heads (on Saturday March 23) across the Scottish borders into the North of England for a five-hour trip to York, calling en route at Floors Castle & Gardens at Kelso in the Scottish Borders, the Lord Crewe Arms Hotel at Blanchland in Northumberland and the Rose & Crown at Romaldkirk in North Yorkshire

 

A special centenary visit to Bentley Motors headquarters at Crewe is also planned where the Bentley drivers can pay tribute to the spiritual home of their luxury cars.

 

From Nantwich in Cheshire the tour continues (on Wednesday 27 March) for a journey though the Midlands to Cotswolds with a stop-over at the Lygon Arms Hotel in the Worcestershire village of Broadway, calling en route at the RAF Museum at Cosford in Shropshire and the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hillclimb course at Worcester.

 

During the party’s stay in the picturesque Cotswolds, Lady Ashcombe will host a celebratory dinner at Sudeley Castle on Thursday 28 March.

 

The cavalcade leaves York (on Monday March 25) and heads cross country to the north-west of England for a five-hour trip to the Rookery Hall Hotel & Spa at Nantwich, calling en route at Bentley in the suburbs of Doncaster, Winnats Pass in the Peak District and Fischer’s Baslow at Bakewell in Derbyshire.

 

From Nantwich in Cheshire the tour continues (on Wednesday 27 March) for a journey though the Midlands to Cotswolds with a stop-over at the Lygon Arms Hotel in the Worcestershire village of Broadway, calling en route at the RAF Museum at Cosford in Shropshire.

 

The cavalcade of cars will make a final flourish at the Brooklands circuit in Surrey, with drivers wearing costumes appropriate to the era of their individual cars

 

Heading south towards the Home Counties and London area (on Friday 29 March) the tour will stay at the capital’s St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, calling en route at the Bentley Drivers Club just outside Banbury and Stonor Park near High Wycombe.

 

The Bentley Drivers’ Club spokesman said: ’The tour will conclude in fitting fashion with a grand finale black-tie dinner in the White Tower at the historic Tower of London on Saturday 30 March. Guests will be greeted by Yeoman Warders and be invited to inspect the crown jewels.’

 

The following day the cavalcade of cars makes a final flourish at the Brooklands circuit in Surrey, with drivers wearing costumes appropriate to the era of their individual cars.

 

Bentley Drivers’ Club was founded in 1936 as ‘a club of friends who share a love of all things Bentley’.

 

The 1,260-mile trip starts today from John O'Groats in Scotland and will finish at the historic Brooklands racetrack in London. The trip is organised by the Bentley Drivers’ Club, founded in 1936 as ‘a club of friends who share a love of all things Bentley’

 

 

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