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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Rievaulx Terrace and Temples, North York Moors, Yorkshire
Rievaulx Terrace is a superb 18th century landscape garden, with a half mile terraced lawn, set above the River Rye. It also has two temples, woodland and dramatic views over the Cistercian Rievaulx Abbey. It i...
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...
Port Isaac, Cornwall
Port Isaac is an unspoilt picturesque fishing village on the north coast of Cornwall, five miles from Wadebridge and set amongst magnificent cliff scenery. The village provides good walking on the South West C...
Aldbury, Hertfordshire
Aldbury, situated on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty close to Tring, is one of the most attractive villages in Hertfordshire. It is regarded as a chocolate box village a...
East Meon, Hampshire
East Meon is a small village in Hampshire, the highest one in the Meon Valley, surrounded by the South Downs National Park. It is situated five miles west of Petersfield and twenty miles from the South Coast at...
Hambledon, Hampshire
Hambledon, a small village in the Meon Valley in Hampshire, is known to cricket enthusiasts the world over as the “Cradle of Cricket”. The game of cricket had been played in Southern England for many years befo...
Stanton, Gloucestershire
Stanton, in northern Gloucestershire, is a beautiful Cotswold village that does not attract the publicity that Snowshill, Broadway and other Cotswold tourist locations enjoy. It is a quiet totally uncommerciali...