Thornbury Castle day trips: Wells Cathedral Slideshow. A short segment showing some of our pictures of Wells Cathedral. Copyleft music by Markovich. (You can view this video, and other travel videos in full-size and near-DVD quality, travel stills and more at www.jpmeyer.com). Thornbury Castle is part of the von Essen Group of hotels, "a private collection of individual country house hotels in the UK, each with a distinctive style and character of its own" according to www.vonessenhotels.co.uk, but we think of it as Real People having Real Fun!