still under construction. Despite the widespread notion that the habit of visiting "stately homes" set in after the Second World War, many have been accessible to travellers of higher social standing since Fiennes' time if not earlier, and her comments are among the most interesting sources of information about them. At Stonehenge she counted the exact number of stones and at Harrogate visited "the sulphur or stinking spaw". She also clambered over the rocks at Land's End. Remembered Fiennes died in Hackney in 1741. Her travels formed the subject of a play, Riding England Sidesaddle by Christopher Goulding, which was first performed at the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1992, starring Andrea Riseborough as the young Celia Fiennes. See also "Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross" References Further reading The Journeys of Celia Fiennes. Several modern print editions are available, some of them illustrated. Derek J. Taylor, England from a Side-Saddle: The Great Journeys of Celia Fiennes (The History Press, 2021). External links The Daily Telegraph – Great British journeys. Nicholas Crane. Writing about his forthcoming televised recreation of Fiennes 'Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall' in 1698. Dated 2007-08-11. Retrieved 2007-08-30. Full text of Celia Fiennes: Through England on a Side Saddle in the time of William & Mary on A Vision of Britain through Time, with links to the places mentioned. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary, Being the Diary of Celia Fiennes by Celia Fiennes (1662-1741) with an introduction by Emily Wingfield Griffiths (1828–1917) London: Field and Tuer, Leadenhall Press, 1888. 1662 births 1741 deaths English travel writers Cecil British women travel writers Writers about England 18th-century British non-fiction writers 17th-century diarists 18th-century diarists