Hay Literary Festival

Wales

For 25 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders....

Garden House

Yelverton, Devon

The house and gardens that form The Garden House were bought in the 1940s by our founders; Lionel and Katharine Fortescue. Over the next 40 years the Fortescues...

Kielder water & Forest Park

Northumberland

Kielder Water & Forest Park Welcome to the great outdoors. Absorb the peace and tranquillity. Try something adventurous. Above all else, create your own unique...

Somerset County Cricket Grounds

Taunton

Cricket Ground

Hatfield Forest

Essex

Ancient royal hunting forest Hatfield Forest is the best surviving example in Britain of an almost complete Royal Hunting Forest. It has seen many owners, from Kings to...

St Botolphs Church. Boston Stump

Boston Lincolnshire

Boston Parish Church, dedicated to St Boltoph and known as Boston Stump is listed among the top eighteen churches by Simon Jenkins. It is one of the largest parish...

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon, Gwynedd

A brute of a fortress. Caernarfon Castle’s pumped-up appearance is unashamedly muscle-bound and intimidating. Picking a fight with this massive structure would have been...

Gwili Railway

Gwili Steam Railway,Bronwydd Arms Station, Carmarthen

The Gwili Steam railway is a standard guage steam railway that runs for 4 miles (an 8 mile round trip) through a beautiful wooded valley near Carmarthen along part of ...

Wrekin

Shropshire

The Wrekin is made of very ancient ‘Uriconian’ volcanic rocks (though its shape does not in fact come from having been ‘a volcano’). The Ercall Quarry also has...

Greenwood Forest Park

Gwynedd

This winter visit The Enchanted WoodBarn, GreenWood Forest Park’s amazing indoor play centre, for hours of indoor fun on those cold winter days.The Enchanted...

Bicton Gardens

Bicton, Nr Budleigh Salterton

Mablethorpe North End Beach

Lincolnshire

Large sandy beach and gently shelving beach, with parking close by at the Mablethorpe Seal Sanctuary. Uncrowded, evern in summer. Safe for swimming, Lots of space for...