Alfriston, Sussex
Alfriston is an ancient village set amongst the South Downs in East Sussex, only four miles from the chalk cliffs of Seaford. It stands where an ancient ridgeway, used by prehistoric man, crossed the River Cuc...
Burnham Beeches, Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire
Burnham Beeches is a National Nature Reserve and Special Area of Conservation, extending to 540 acres of woodland, heath and wetland. It is situated west of Farnham Common in the village of Burnham, Buckingham...
Piddinghoe, Sussex
Piddinghoe is a small picturesque village in East Sussex, in the valley of the River Ouse, five miles south of Lewes. It is close to the port of Newhaven. The River Ouse, which runs alongside the village, is ...
Rodmell, Sussex
Rodmell is a small village in the South Downs of Sussex, four miles south of Lewis and a few miles north of the coast at Newhaven. It has many lovely old buildings. The Abergavenny Arms is a traditional famil...
Runnymede – The Birthplace of Modern Democracy
Runnymede - The Birthplace of Modern Democracy and a good place to walk the dog
Runnymede can quite justifiably claim to be the most famous meadow in the world. Here, twenty-five miles from London, on 15th Ju...
Canadian War Memorials, Bramshott and Grayshott, Hampshire
There is a brown tourist sign after the Hindhead Tunnel, at the side of the main A3 London to Portsmouth Road. It says, "Canadian Memorial Planting". Many of the drivers who notice this sign do not have any k...
Cadsden and The Ridgeway to Chequers, Buckinghamshire
Cadsden is a tiny village, two miles north east of Princes Risborough, in Buckinghamshire. The origin of the name, Cadsden, is uncertain, but the word "Catsdean" was used in Anglo-Saxon times, when it meant va...
Singleton, Sussex
Singleton is a small pretty village just off the main A286 Chichester to Midhurst Road, near the source of the River Lavant. The river bed is dry most of the year, but flows in the winter in a short valley to ...
Weald and Downland Living Museum, Singleton, Sussex
The Weald and Downland Living Museum is on a forty acre site at the pretty village of Singleton, Sussex, seven miles north of Chichester. Visitors can examine the collection of more than fifty historic buildin...
D.H. Lawrence and Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
Where was D.H. Lawrence born and what was the greatest influence and inspiration for his work?
Eastwood is a former coal mining town, eight miles north-west of Nottingham. It was important in the 19th centur...
East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire
East Hagbourne is an extremely attractive village, one mile south of Didcot and eleven miles south of Oxford, close to the Berkshire Downs. It contains a variety of lovely old cottages, red-bricked Georgian an...
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell is a pretty village in Oxfordshire close to Wallingford, located just off the A4130 road which by-passes the village. The unusual name of the village dates from 1948, when the two separa...
Richmond Castle and Town, Richmond, Yorkshire
Richmond is a market town in North Yorkshire, one of the most dramatically beautiful towns in the north of England. It is not to be confused with Richmond in Surrey, nor fifty-seven other "Richmonds" throughout...
Brimham Rocks, Nidderdale, Yorkshire
Brimham Rocks, as the name suggests, is a striking area of weird and wonderful shaped rock formations. Set amongst 387 acres of moorland, it is a popular tourist attraction on Brimham Moor, eleven miles from Ha...
Roseberry Topping, North York Moors, Yorkshire
Roseberry Topping is a distinctively shaped hill in North Yorkshire, near Great Ayton. At 1049 feet, the summit is not the highest hill on the North York Moors, but it stands out from a level skyline. It is aff...
Top Withens and Brontë Waterfalls, Haworth Moor, Yorkshire
The ruins of Top Withens, high up on the windswept heather covered Yorkshire moorlands of Haworth Moor, both inspire and depress. Believed by many to be the setting for Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Wuthering H...
Eyam, Plague Village, Peak District, Derbyshire
Eyam, known as the Plague Village, is in a beautiful setting, eight hundred feet up in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District. It is situated six miles north of Bakewell. When visiting Eyam, it is difficult ...
Mam Tor and The Great Ridge, Peak District, Derbyshire
Mam Tor is a 517 metre peak near Castleton in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, sitting on the edge of the gritstone Dark Peak and the limestone White Peak. Mam Tor is known as the Shivering Mountain, due to th...
Winnats Pass, Castleton, High Peak, Derbyshire
Winnats Pass is a spectacular steep-sided limestone gorge in the Peak District of Derbyshire and forms part of the National Trust's High Peak Estate. It gets its name from a corruption of "Windygates" and on a ...
Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire
Dunstable Downs is a chalk and grassland area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, on the highest point of the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire, at 797 feet. This windswept chalk ridge is home to a wide variety of wild...