Nayland, Suffolk
Nayland is a Suffolk village, seven miles north of Colchester, near the mouth of the River Stour. In the 16th century, it was a prosperous cloth town and The Old Guildhall in the High Street demonstrates this. ...
Old Leigh, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Old Leigh, Leigh-on-Sea is a small fishing village in Essex, thirty miles east of London on the River Thames Estuary. It is known locally as, "The Old Town". In the sixteenth century, it was a prosperous port c...
Finchingfield, Essex
Finchingfield is a small village in north-west Essex, six miles from Thaxted. The name, Finchingfield, means, “land belonging to Finc or his family”. It has been described as the most photographed village in En...
Cobham, Surrey
Cobham is a large village, only seventeen miles from central London, but which has a charming rural atmosphere. It is situated just inside the M25 motorway, ten miles north-east of Guildford, on the River Mole....
Shere, Surrey
Shere is a small picturesque village situated below the North Downs, six miles south-east of Guildford and approximately twenty miles from London. It is regarded by many as the prettiest village in Surrey and i...
Gomshall, Surrey
Gomshall is a small village close to the North Downs Way, situated on the A25 road between Dorking and Guildford. The River Tillingbourne flows through the village, including the most significant building in th...
Whitchurch, Hampshire
Whitchurch is a small town situated on the River Test, eight miles from Andover. The name means, "White Church", as the original Saxon Church was built of limestone or chalk. It was replaced by a Norman struc...
Stockbridge, Hampshire
Stockbridge is a village between Andover and Romsey, close to the cathedral cities of Winchester and Salisbury. It is set in the famous Test Valley, which has some of the best fly-fishing in England. The Grosve...
Nether Wallop, Hampshire
Nether Wallop is a small village with pretty thatched cottages, four miles north-west of Stockbridge. Readers of the Agatha Christie 'Miss Marple' novels, know the village as "St. Mary Mead", as most of the ori...
Wherwell, Hampshire
Wherwell is a very picturesque village in the Test Valley, three miles from Andover. Here can be seen some of the finest examples of straw thatching in England, displayed on the mainly black and white timber-fr...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Pavenham, Bedfordshire
Pavenham is a picturesque village north-west of Bedford, where the traditional craft of rushwork is still carried on. Matting made in Pavenham was supplied to the Houses of Parliament. The common bulrush has be...