Departures: Trust cottages

THE National Trust Holiday Cottage brochure for 1994 features 207 properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including 14 new ones. Also new for next year is a national booking system: previously, cottage holidays had to be booked with National Trust regional offices.

Properties offered include farmhouses, coastguard cottages, flats in country houses, a castle folly and a former water tower. Additions for 1994 include two cottages in the Cotswold village of Snowshill, a new flat above the Victorian laundry at Beningborough Hall in Yorkshire and seven new cottages near Loch Erne on the Crom Estate in Northern Ireland.

Prices range from pounds 122 for a winter week at a coastguard cottage in Northumbria to pounds 1,150 for a Christmas week for 10 at a country house on the Helford river in Cornwall.

For a copy, send a cheque or postal order for 75p made payable to National Trust (Enterprises) Ltd, PO Box 536, Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 8SX.