Good Evenin Robin and welcome to the site-if you to the left of the page you will find mounds of information regarding places to visit.

You will need more than 12-13 days to see the places you have mentioned.-if you need any more information just ask --the members on here are very helpful and will be pleased to help.

  Hi Robinm, and welcome to POE, just the place to be for a trip to England, look out for places  to see with all the great photos here, info tucked away everywhere and if you need to book places to stay do it through the POE facility for good deals. If you are going to be at Mildenhall for a while, just North is Sandringham one of the Queens residences with I believe you can visit. If you wish to visit castles you MUST visit Castle Rising Castle- check it out this is a very special place to us and I am sure you would enjoy it. A little further on if you get to Norwich there is another Castle and a cathedral.

          I worked at USAF Mildenhall back in the 1970s for a short while in my surveying days, I am sure I would not recognise it now.

        Anyway welcome and I hope your plans come together. 

Hi Robin; Near the Essex/Suffolk border is Flatford Mill around Dedham Vale. The area painter John Constable painted some of his most famous landscapes. A nice area to visit. 

Used to listen to the USAF KC-135's operating out of Mildenhall a few years back on the radios. 

Hi Robin,  If you want to see the Cotswolds, I recommend Castle Coombe, Lacock, Bibury and Lower Slaughter to mention just a few.  Bourton-on-water is very pretty but very touristy.  You really need a car though.  Do you have any problem with driving?  It truly is not that hard for us Americans.  LOL  Cirencester is a great place to stay.  It's centrally located so you can do day trips.  Stonehenge, Avebury and Chedworth Roman Villa are also within easy driving distance of Cirencester.

If I can be of any help at all, don't hesitate to contact me off the site at uktours4u@gmail.com.