Few of us are not acquainted with the books of Jane Austen. After 200 years they are still immensely popular, and people remain fascinate...

King Alfred - A Victorian representation Photo: Public photo Perhaps not a car park in King Alfred’s case, but it is possible that the bo...

In the village of Fishbourne, near the cathedral city of Chichester (the Roman city of Noviomagus Reginorum) in Sussex, stands the larges...

Throughout Southern England there are dozens of hillforts and one of the most dramatic is that of Cadbury Castle in Somerset, located a f...

In the little village of Athelhampton in Dorset, on the banks of the River Piddle, is Athelhampton Hall, one of England’s finest Tudor Ma...

Britain was an important province within the Roman Empire and there are many well-known Roman sites, familiar to visitors, but there are ...

I have decided to focus for the next few weeks on sites closer to home and a few days ago I made a visit to Fiddleford Manor, which is le...

Photo: Swaledale Swaledale and Wensleydale are two valleys on the east of the Pennines, in the area known as the Yorkshire Dales. Swaleda...

In a few weeks, if all goes to plan, Jodi and I will be moving to the little village of East Coker in Somerset. It is a quiet and peacefu...

Country Lane in Devon Like so many school children of my generation, I was required, while I was at both Junior and Senior school, to lea...

A misty Autumn morning on the River Wye The River Wye, the fifth longest river in the UK, rises in the Plynlimon Hills in mid Wales (the w...

Hay on Wye Hay (as it is generally known) is a small market town in Wales, close to the English border. Its Welsh name is Y Gelli Gandryl...

York Minster Certainly, one of my favourite cities in Britain, York is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in England, a city that ...

The Roman Bath House, with the Gothic Bath Abbey in the background While Britain doesn’t have Roman sites that are as large and magnifice...

In the middle of the 12th C began a new style that took architecture to new levels of sophistication. Together with an unknown master mas...

Exmoor is an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England, which takes its name from the River Exe,...

The British do like their pubs and generally have a ‘local’ where they can relax, drink their beer (other tipples are available) and enjo...

Sixty miles south of London, and a little more than 1.5 hours by train, is the city of Portsmouth. With a history going back to Roman tim...

Milton Abbas is a pretty village in Dorset, typical of so many villages in that part of England, with thatched houses, a pub, alms-houses...

The term ‘black and white’ village refers to many old English villages, typically in the counties of the Welsh Marches, and in Herefordsh...