Avebury, Wiltshire
Avebury is a place of mystery and is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Europe. Larger than Stonehenge, covering twenty-nine acres and surrounded by an earth bank over fifteen feet high, this Neolit...
Wellow, Somerset
Wellow is a small village of about 500 inhabitants, four miles south of the City of Bath. It has many warm, golden coloured cottages and is situated in a conservation area. The Manor House in the High Street,...
Norton St. Philip, Somerset
Norton St. Philip is a small attractive village, only six miles from the City of Bath. From about 1230 until the dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539, it belonged to the Carthusian monks at Hin...
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, near Bath, is on a hillside above the Somerset bank of the River Frome, the other bank being in Wiltshire. Originally a manor house, it was sold to Thomas Hungerford in 1369, who pr...
Bath, Somerset
Bath in Somerset, on the edge of the Cotswolds, is a World Heritage City. It attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world every year to see the fine Georgian buildings, beautiful parks, riverside walk...
Avoncliff, near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Avoncliff is a small, picturesque village of less than thirty homes and a pub, nestling in the Limpley Stoke Valley, one and a half miles from Bradford on Avon. At this point, the Kennet and Avon Canal crosses ...
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Bradford on Avon is a small attractive town in Wiltshire, eight miles from Bath. Its name means 'broad ford', which, in the Middle Ages, was replaced by a stone bridge across the River Avon. This dates from the...
Kennet and Avon Canal, Devizes to Caen Hill Locks, Rowde, Wiltshire
Caen Hill Locks, on the Kennet and Avon Canal near Devizes in Wiltshire, provide an impressive sight. These 16 locks, taking the Canal up Caen Hill, create the steepest canal lock flight in the world, a rise o...
Devizes, Wiltshire
Devizes is an historic market town in Wiltshire, with almost 500 "listed" buildings. The Kennet and Avon Canal, with the spectacular Caen Hill Flight of 29 locks, is close by. Wadsworth Brewery is prominent at ...
Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire
Bishops Cannings is a small village of only 1,500 inhabitants, in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, two and a half miles north east of Devizes. The Kennet and Avon Canal, with its famous swing bridge, is close to ...
St. Albans, Hertfordshire
St. Albans is a city that once was the largest Roman town in Britain, known as Verulamium. It has Roman remains dating back over 2,000 years. Only twenty miles north of London, it is a compact city with a magni...
Hurst Spit and Hurst Castle, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire
Hurst Spit in Hampshire, is a shingle beach one mile and a half long, at the western end of the Solent, near Milford-on-Sea. Hurst Castle, built for Henry VIII, situated at the end of the Spit, guards the appro...
Twickenham, Middlesex
Twickenham is a town south west of London, on the River Thames. It is famous for Twickenham Stadium, the largest rugby union venue in the world, with a capacity of 81,605, the home of English Rugby Union. It ...
Westward Ho! Devon
Westward Ho! is a popular seaside resort in north Devon, near Bideford and has the distinction of being the only place name in the British Isles that has an exclamation mark in its official name. It has a long...
Lustleigh, Dartmoor, Devon
Lustleigh is a small village on Dartmoor in Devon, nestling in the Wrey Valley, eight miles north west of Newton Abbot. Its deeply thatched pretty granite cottages lie on moorland, surrounded by huge granite b...
Bickleigh, Devon
Bickleigh is an attractive riverside village, four miles downstream of Tiverton on the main road to Exeter. Photographs of its thatched cottages, situated by a five arched stone bridge, are often chosen to ador...
Appledore, Devon
Appledore is a quaint fishing village in North Devon, situated where the Rivers Taw and Torridge meet. Sailing is very popular and the view at low tide across a vast spread of sandbanks to the open sea, is par...
Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
Long Crendon is an attractive village with its many sixteenth and seventeenth century thatched cottages, timber-framed houses and mellow stone walls. It was once an important lace-making centre. Needle-making, ...
Brill, Buckinghamshire
Brill is situated on a hill six hundred feet above the Vale of Aylesbury and commands magnificent views into Oxfordshire. On top of the hill, stands one of the oldest post-mills in England, dating from 1689. It...
Turvey, Bedfordshire
Turvey is a pretty village seven miles west of Bedford. Many of the buildings were built by the Lord of the Manor in the nineteenth century, from locally quarried limestone. The history of Turvey is dominated b...